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

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

Dr. Payal Kohli weighs in on the CDC’s new advisory panel voting against thimerosal in flu vaccines—despite years of safety ...

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers took up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial preservative called ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine panel voted to stop recommending flu vaccines that contain thimerosal. Here’s what to know about the vaccine preservative.

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.

Nonetheless, the use of thimerosal in vaccines has declined significantly since the US Food and Drug Administration in 1999 asked vaccine manufacturers to detail plans to remove it; the FDA now ...