Multiple Steps Should Be Taken Before Ethical Pediatric Anthrax Vaccine Trials Can Be Considered By The US Government

In a report released today, 19-Mar-2013, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that the federal government would have to take multiple steps before anthrax vaccine trials with children could be ethically considered. The Bioethics Commission was responding to a request from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius who last year asked the members to study the question of anthrax vaccine trials with children after receiving a recommendation from another federal committee that such research be initiated, pending ethical review...
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