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

And this time, it’s not just fringe actors fanning the flames. It’s policymakers. It’s media personalities. It’s individuals ...

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

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

RFK Jr. has long linked thimerosal to autism – a connection that extensive scientific research has thoroughly debunked.

A CDC advisory panel voted 5–1 to recommend only flu vaccines without the preservative thimerosal, a mercury-containing ...

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

Hear what ACSH's Dr. Josh Bloom, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Henry Miller have to say about the falsehoods of thimerosal claims in regards to vaccine safety, and perhaps the unintended consequences ...

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.

Taking aim at a longtime target of anti-vaccine activists, CDC advisors said Thursday that the U.S. should not administer ...

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

It’s a question laid to rest years ago, as studies showed no evidence that the preservative causes any health problems.