Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s ...

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last ...

Thimerosal has been at the heart of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s antivaccine activism for 20 ...

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

A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that ...

The preservative is in only a small fraction of influenza vaccine vials, specifically the multi-dose vials that constitute a ...

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

The CDC's newly rebuilt Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) took aim Thursday at a mercury-based preservative ...

Thimerosal has long been considered safe by health agencies worldwide, with its use already limited to a few multi-dose flu ...

The preservative thimerosal has been removed from all but a few vaccines, and studies have confirmed no link to ...

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

The mercury-based preservative has come under fire from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and health secretary ...