RealFeedApp International experts label newborn vaccine trial unethical
Police seized doses of hepatitis B vaccine intended for a trial on newborns, funded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Danish researchers Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn. International experts condemned the trial design, yet the US CDC awarded an unsolicited $1.6 million grant in December.
- Field
- medicine and diagnostics
- What they did
- Danish researchers received a grant to conduct hepatitis B vaccine trials on newborns, but the trial plans were halted due to criticism of the study design.
- Why it matters
- International health experts called the experiment unethical because it could have exposed thousands of newborns to risk.
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