The lower incidence of dementia seen in adults who received the shingles vaccine is likely not just a correlation, scientists say, based on new results of an observational study.

On the FDA’s docket this month are two expansion bids, one for GSK’s asthma drug Nucala into COPD and another for Merck’s ...

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.

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

Andrew Nixon, spokesman for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced on ...

The CDC reported 12 seasonal flu-related deaths of children this week, bringing the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216 — the most in 15 years. Experts say one reason for this new ...

NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will require new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, marking what ...

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

Supporters of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and breast removal face another setback with dismissal of lawsuit against Alabama's ban. HHS debuts "universal vaccine platform," requires placebo ...

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

But newer versions of the shots may not go through the same process, because it is considered unethical to withhold a shot known to be safe from a particular group, and because the shot is only being ...