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

A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

Thimerosal is an ingredient that helps keep vaccines pathogen free. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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

A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that Americans receive influenza vaccines that are free of thimerosal even though there ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend ...

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee are calling for an urgent briefing with staff from the Centers for Disease Control ...

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

Though most flu vaccines don't include the preservative thimerosal, advisers to the CDC have recommended against using it. Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images hide ...

The preservative thimerosal has been removed from all but a few vaccines, and studies have confirmed no link to neurodevelopmental issues including autism. So public health experts were puzzled when ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a report said that evidence does not support a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism, ahead of a two-day meeting of experts ...