The US Department of Health and Human Services has adopted a recommendation to remove a preservative called thimerosal from ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 5-1-1 in favor of ensuring ...

The decision follows last month’s vote of the CDC’s revamped vaccine advisory committee. Thimerosal, mostly removed from vaccines decades ago, has long been a target of anti-vaccine advocates for ...

Mary Talley Bowden, MD, founder of Americans for Health Freedom, an advocacy group that has lobbied against mRNA shots, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formally accepted recommendations that would require all vaccine manufacturers to ...

The ingredient has long been targeted by conspiracy theorists over debunked claims it causes autism. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The first case of measles in North Carolina this year was reported last month, and doctors say an outbreak in the state is ...

The federal government is recommending flu vaccines remove the preservative thimerosal after Health and Human Services ...

Flu shots that have more than one dose of vaccine contain thimerosal; other versions don’t have it. HHS said Wednesday that vaccine makers have said they have the capacity to replace the shots that do ...

While few shots still contain thimerosal, the move eliminates a vaccine option for Americans and is a win for the ...

Following a recommendation from a panel of CDC advisors, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday ordered that the ...

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