Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has hired an anti-vaccine advocate and longtime ally to a position at the Health and Human Services Department.

A startling new vision of vaccination in America is becoming clearer — one likely to involve fresh scrutiny of established ...

Plus, Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a series of health care cuts and savings in the bill for Trump's ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by Health and Human ...

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

Thimerosal, an ethyl-mercury based preservative, has been employed since the 1930s to keep multi-dose vials of vaccines safe ...

Things kicked off again in 1999, when the FDA reviewed the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines. It found no evidence of ...

A presentation scheduled for a CDC vaccine meeting claimed vaccines could cause long-term brain effects, but the cited study doesn’t exist.

The meeting included a discussion of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and longtime target of the anti-vaccine world.

Only one ACIP member dissented, arguing that the risk of flu outweighs any risk from the mercury-based preservative ...

CDC panel, reshaped by RFK Jr., rejects thimerosal flu shots and backs RSV drug amid resignations, expert criticism and ...