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RFK Jr.’s effort to undermine COVID boosters is unethical
Kennedy is a longtime vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, and his appointment to the country’s top health care policy ...
How RFK Jr. Is Already Undermining Vaccines Under Trump
From sowing doubt about childhood vaccines to appointing fringe researchers to lead bogus studies, Kennedy is advancing the ...
What’s Behind RFK Jr.’s Placebo-Testing Order For Vaccines?
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" ...
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RFK Jr Calls For Placebo Trials For All New Vaccines. Experts Say You Can’t – And Shouldn’t – Do That
Kennedy Jr pledged last week that his department will now require all new vaccines to be tested in placebo-controlled trials ...
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RFK Jr.’s HHS Taps Aide To Scrutinize New Vaccine Recommendations
The move follows Kennedy’s repeated statements about pharma-backed CDC advisory panels. The Health and Human Services ...
Vinay Prasad's Appointment To FDA's CBER Triggers Questions Over Future Of Cell And Gene Therapy Regulation
FDA names Vinay Prasad to lead CBER, raising questions over biologics oversight and triggering biotech stock losses and ...
HHS Advances Kennedy’s Old ‘Placebo’ Vaccine Safety Claims
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly claimed that vaccines are not tested in ...
FDA names outspoken Covid vaccine critic as the new vaccine chief
Dr. Vinay Prasad was an outspoken critic of the FDA’s response to the pandemic, including the former vaccine chief, Dr. Peter ...
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Vinay Prasad will replace Marks as CBER director
Controversial doctor Vinay Prasad, a public health researcher at UCSF known as a critic of US health policy, has been named ...
FDA chooses Dr. Vinay Prasad to lead biologics, vaccines division
The US Food and Drug Administration has named Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist oncologist, to lead its Center for Biologics ...
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Biotech Stocks Fall After FDA Names Vinay Prasad To Succeed Marks at CBER
The oncologist and former University of California, San Francisco, professor has long been critical of COVID-19 mandates and ...
Vinay Prasad, a critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures, to lead FDA vaccine program
Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, has been named to ...