Health Secretary RFK Jr. orders removal of thimerosal preservative from all US flu vaccines despite scientific safety ...

Fact checked by Jennifer Klump The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has adopted a recommendation to remove thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, from all influenza vaccines in the ...

Although it has been largely phased out of U.S. vaccines, thimerosal has long been targeted by anti-vaccine advocates.

Thimerosal is a preservative that was commonly used in vaccines. Learn about its safety, risks and concerns, and what current research says about its effects on health.

In a sweeping move to eliminate mercury exposure from vaccines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert ...

The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ...

Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a ...

Kennedy rescinded the recommendation for thimerosal-containing flu vaccines, despite no confirmed link to autism. All 17 ACIP members were replaced with vaccine skeptics, aiming to restore public ...

Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s how we know it is safe and why we still use it in some vaccines given ...

Last month, a vaccine panel with members handpicked by Kennedy voted in favor of Americans receiving seasonal flu shots that are free from thimerosal, despite decades of studies showing no related ...

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has announced a commitment to developing and releasing maternal ...

Vaccine makers removed thimerosal from roughly 95 percent of flu vaccinations in 1999 following unfounded claims about mercury.