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

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 ...

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

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

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

A CDC advisory panel voted 5–1 to recommend only flu vaccines without the preservative thimerosal, a mercury-containing ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), recently remade by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

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

The ACIP is a federal advisory committee composed of medical and public health experts who make recommendations on the use of vaccines for adults and children in the US.

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

The preservative is in a small share of flu shots and has been studied for decades. Experts say it’s safe — despite Kennedy’s long opposition.