US CDC to award research contract on vaccines and autism

US CDC to award research contract on vaccines and autism

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a contract for investigating the association between vaccines and autism prevalence, a government website showed.

CDC Set to Hand Autism-Vaccine Study to Single Institution

The CDC plans to give a sole-source contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to study the link between vaccinations and autism prevalence. ... The post CDC Set to Hand Autism-Vaccine Study to Single Institution appeared first on The New American.

CDC Says Experts Going to Investigate Link Between Vaccines and Autism

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to award money to an institute to look into any association between vaccines and autism, according to a newly published notice. The CDC said in the notice, which was published on Sept. 11, that it intends to award a contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “for Investigation of the Association between Vaccinations and Autism Prevalence.” It said that Rensselaer, which is located in T…

CDC to fund study on debunked link between vaccines and autism

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is funding a study on the widely debunked idea that vaccines cause autism, according to a government funding notice.  While numerous large studies have disproved a connection between autism and vaccines — a cornerstone of the anti-vaccine movement — Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…

HHS to have Rensselaer investigate question of autism-vaccine link

A much-investigated question about autism, dismissed in many studies, is getting a surge of new federal research money

CDC to offer contract to study link between vaccines and autism