A CDC advisory has recommended to ban the use of thimerosal in flu shots despite no evidence that it causes any harm.

The seven new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices revived a decades-old debate with a Thursday vote in favor of recommending seasonal flu vaccines — only if they're ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the removal of the preservative thimerosal in seasonal influenza vaccines at their meeting.

The decision shows just how vaccine critics are beginning to shape official U.S. policy, public health officials told The Washington Post.

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Thimerosal has been a target of groups that question vaccine safety. What vaccines still contain the mercury compound, and what would happen if the recommendations against its use become official?

The conversation around the flu vaccine has been reignited with controversy due to renewed attention on thimerosal, a mercury ...

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

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.

Brewer was terminated by Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the vaccine advisory panel in June.

The group cast aside evidence-based science in favor of anti-vaccine propaganda and dangerous falsehoods that will hurt ...

The Trump administration’s new vaccine advisers endorsed this fall's flu vaccines late last week, but only those that don't ...