Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An influential panel of CDC advisers is slated to vote on a little-used preservative called thimerosal -- a move that has left ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A key vaccine committee, newly appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted against recommending ...

During the CDC press conference call held Wednesday to discuss the latest thimerosal study, journalist David Kirby asked researchers to explain some of the study's potentially troubling fine print.

Does the vaccine preservative thimerosal cause autism? Thimerosal is a mercury-containing compound that has been used since the 1930s as a preservative in vaccines. Why was thimerosal introduced into ...

High levels of mercury are known to damage the nervous system and kidneys. In addition, studies in the Faroe Islands, the Seychelles, and Iraq showed that fetuses might be harmed when pregnant women ...

A mercury-containing preservative should not be banned as an ingredient in vaccines, U.S. pediatricians said Monday, in a move that may be controversial. In its statement, the American Academy of ...

Daniel Waterman was a passenger in his girlfriend’s car in Flagler County when it crashed into a tree on Super Bowl night. He died last week from pneumonia while recovering from his injuries. Read ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s revamped Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has struck its first blow against established vaccine practice, recommending against the use of flu shots that ...

THIMEROSAL AND AUTISM....Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and thousands of distraught parents to the contrary, the evidence linking thimerosal to autism has never been very strong. Thimerosal is a mercury-based ...

Thimerosal, a vaccine ingredient, has garnered attention after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ordered it removed it from all influenza vaccines on Wednesday. Health and Human ...

Thimerosal: What to Know About the Vaccine Preservative From a Bygone Flu-Shot Debate The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers took up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last ...

The Trump administration's vaccine advisers are bringing 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 ...