Infectious disease specialist Monica Gandhi, MD examines recent claims about the safety of thimerosal, a preservative used in ...

Thimerosal is an organomercury preservative used in vaccines and other biological products, distinguished by its rapid ...

"This is a very clear effort to shine a light on this anti-vaccine trope: that thimerosal is somehow dangerous.” ...

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...

A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that ...

It is rarely included in vaccines in the United States. The flu shot was the sole routinely recommended vaccine to include ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted to recommend annual flu vaccines but against flu shots containing the preservative ...

Thimerosal has been at the heart of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s antivaccine activism for 20 ...

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers took up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last small ...

Health experts were shocked to see that thimerosal, a preservative that has largely been phased out of U.S. vaccines, was on ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to ban thimerosal, a harmless preservative, in what critics say ...

Thimerosal has been a target of groups that question vaccine safety. That's despite "a long record of safe and effective use" as a vaccine preservative, according to the Food and Drug Administration.