A personalized mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer has shown early promise in a small phase 1 trial of 16 people. A mRNA-based cancer vaccine has shown impressive results in a small trial in patients ...

With the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. canceling nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research contracts on Tuesday, you may be wondering if mRNA vaccines are safe.

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The federal government is cutting $500 million in research money for development of mRNA vaccines, which were widely used against the COVID-19 virus. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks at an event where Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed SNAP food choice waivers at the USDA Whitten Building on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday that it will cancel $500 million worth of projects dedicated to designing messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for pandemic preparedness.

Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams pushed back against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Sunday for recently winding down its mRNA vaccine development activities via the ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he is cancelling contracts and grants worth nearly $500 million earmarked to develop mRNA vaccines, as the long-time vaccine critic ...

Messenger RNA technology, better known as mRNA technology, made it possible to rapidly deploy a new vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic — much earlier than would otherwise have been possible, saving ...