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The US Food and Drug Administration will require all new vaccines go through placebo-controlled studies before they are approved, a policy change that could alter how novel immunizations are developed.

The change will bring “radical transparency to the American public,” Andrew Nixon, a spokesman at the US Department of Health and Human Services, said in an email to Bloomberg.

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The Ethics and Public Policy Center published the report just days after FDA Commissioner Martin Makary said he has “no plans” to restrict mifepristone, which has been at the center of the abortion wars since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Makary made several headlines for his comments, seemingly assuring pro-choice Americans that he would not pull FDA approval of the drug. But in that same interview, Makary also said: “As you may know, there is an ongoing set of data that is coming into FDA on mifepristone....

Health officials have reported the first two confirmed measles cases of the year in Cook County. One person with the disease is an adult from Chicago who traveled internationally through O’Hare Airport in early April, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. A rash started April 25 and they have been isolated at home since being diagnosed. They also had received one prior dose of the two-dose MMR vaccine, which covers measles, mumps and rubella. The other case was detected in a suburban Cook County adult who went to...

Two Cook County residents have been diagnosed with measles, Chicago Department of Public Health officials announced Thursday. The cases are the first to be diagnosed in Cook County since March 8, 2024, when an outbreak of measles that began in a Pilsen shelter for migrants from the southern border sickened 67 people. There were no cases of measles diagnosed in Cook County between 2019 and 2024. A suburban Cook County resident, whose vaccination status is unknown, was diagnosed on Monday after going to a local hospital. The second case of...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Health officials in Cook County have confirmed two additional cases of measles, bringing the state’s total reported cases to three. The Chicago Department of Public Health and the Cook County Department of Public Health announced on Wednesday that one case involves a suburban resident, whose vaccination status is unknown. The second case involves a Chicago resident who, according to health officials, traveled internationally through O’Hare International Airport in early April. “The individual had one prior dose of MMR vaccine,” health officials added.

Public health officials confirmed the first two cases of measles in Cook County this year on Wednesday – as the illness continues to spread across the country. One case is in a suburban Cook County resident whose vaccination status is unknown. The other case is a Chicago resident who traveled internationally in early April, who previously had one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, according to a news release from the Cook County, Chicago and Illinois departments of public health. The suburban Cook County resident went to a...

Over the nearly two-decade period studied, starting in 2000, the initiative reduced colorectal cancer incidence and mortality by 30% and 50%, respectively, across all racial and ethnic groups, the analysis found. The program also largely eliminated racial disparities in cancer rates and deaths that were previously disproportionately high among Black patients. The findings are significant because they highlight the importance of bringing early detection for a common and deadly disease — colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.