Placebo testing has been part of the process since the 1940s. It’s unclear what additional measures would achieve — but it may slow development.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said it will require that all new vaccines be tested in placebo-controlled ...

A former White House adviser who pushed malaria drugs as a treatment for COVID-19 long after the FDA had ruled them out has ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it aims to accomplish within four years a scientific feat ...

HHS implemented a pause on research of deadly infectious diseases at one of the nation's most highly secure research labs, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human services says it will require all new vaccines to be tested in placebo-controlled ...

Steven Hatfill promoted hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic. Decades earlier he was wrongly connected with the anthrax ...

The director of national intelligence told podcast host Megyn Kelly she's working with top HHS officials to investigate Covid ...

Researchers aim to develop a universal vaccine platform that could protect against both COVID-19 and influenza without annual ...

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is rescinding Biden administration policy efforts on Covid-19 and gender identity ...

A similar paradigm has unfolded for Covid-19 vaccines since they were first authorized in the height of the pandemic at the end of 2020. HHS’s new initiative also aims to develop universal ...