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

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

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" ...

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

RFK Jr. wants placebo trials for vaccines. A Northwestern researcher says that's unethical.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is changing the way vaccines are tested and will now require all ...

Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested ... in a statement says all new vaccines will be required to undergo placebo testing, a procedure in which some people receive the vaccine ...

Doctors say for diseases like measles or polio, they argue it may be wrong to withhold vaccines from people in a placebo group when those vaccines have already been shown to be effective.

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

The top US health department plans to require placebo testing for all vaccines in an effort to offer "straightforward" public ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is requiring all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing in a new policy change meant to ...