{"id":10119,"date":"2018-04-12T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T13:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2018-04-12T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T13:46:26","slug":"fda-launches-criminal-investigation-into-unauthorized-herpes-vaccine-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10119","title":{"rendered":"FDA Launches Criminal Investigation Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Marisa Taylor for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration has launched a criminal investigation into research by a Southern Illinois University professor who injected people with his unauthorized herpes vaccine, Kaiser Health News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>SIU professor William Halford, who died in June, injected participants with his experimental herpes vaccine\u00a0in St. Kitts and Nevis in 2016\u00a0and\u00a0in Illinois hotel rooms in 2013\u00a0without safety oversight that is routinely performed by the FDA or an institutional review board. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/fda-launches-criminal-investigation-into-unauthorized-herpes-vaccine-research\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=62047282&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--rieBgt1cU8ZmzIVMgCMiulgBx1yATZDW1jzYEHWg7FiU4kuxIP8uE3ufamHLY6HwK6hXS6oWQPgFOSr-KmZG9XdUFcg&amp;_hsmi=62047282\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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