The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it has launched a clinic dedicated to studying “patients experiencing health problems following vaccination," as it looks to gather better evidence about potential vaccine-related injuries.

The department said it launched a series of actions this week to better understand, identify, document, investigate and respond to health problems reported following vaccination, including requiring electronic health records to capture vaccine-related events.

“We must listen to patients and families who report vaccine injuries—not dismiss or gaslight them,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a statement. “President Trump and I are building a health system that takes them seriously, follows the evidence, and uses what we learn to make vaccines safer. This is how we earn back trust in our public health institutions.”

The clinic, which is located on the National Institutes of Health's Bethesda campus in Maryland, opened Monday and allows NIH clinicians and researchers to evaluate patients, study their experiences and investigate potential causes.

The department is also considering reimbursing physicians who report suspected vaccine-related injuries to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and modernizing that system to make reporting easier.

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