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

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

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 CDC panel voted against an ingredient that the anti-vaccine movement has long targeted, while Arcadia was acquired by ...

"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.

The ACIP has recommended that patients only receive seasonal influenza vaccines that do not contain thimerosal.

Dr. Elizabeth Hawse, a pediatrician in Lexington, says the thimerosal preservative was taken out of the flu vaccine close to ...

During the first meeting of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s recently downsized vaccine panel, the group voted to stop recommending flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a ...

A vaccine ingredient is in the spotlight this week, as a preservative called thimerosal was included on the agenda for a ...

Top health groups say the new CDC vaccine panel lacks credibility and advise using past, science-backed guidelines instead.