Failure to recognize and resolve problems in an honest and evidence-based manner is the root cause of increasing vaccine ...

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.” ...

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

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

CDC advisory committee recommends thimerosal-free influenza vaccines for all adults and children, despite claims that the ...

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

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.

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

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

The advisory board ended a nearly 30-year crusade to remove the neurotoxin thimerosal from vaccines, which many have theorized links to issues like autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other ...