A new trial suggests a combination vaccine may offer equal or better protection against both flu and covid-19 compared to ...

The HHS will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo-controlled trials, likely slowing down approvals and decreasing access.

With a demand that vaccine boosters be tested against placebos, RFK Jr. puts an old antivaccine claim at the forefront of government health policy.

When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines ...

With a demand that vaccine boosters be tested against placebos, RFK Jr. puts an old antivaccine claim at the forefront of ...

A blanket requirement for placebo-controlled trials threatens research ethics and vaccine access, it’s being argued.

Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, joins "Forbes Newsroom" ...

Ignoring ethical standards in medicine that have been developed over decades to unilaterally establish placebo controls in ...

A Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson called the move "a radical departure from past practices." ...

The Department of Health and Human Services says it will require new vaccines to be tested against a placebo, which could ...

Public health experts warn that the change could lead to people getting a placebo shot instead of a necessary vaccine.

The health department did not provide details on how the proposed changes will be enforced or to which vaccine trials they ...