A federal vaccine panel, recently reshaped by the U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to discourage the use of flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative. The ...

There's a newly appointed panel of experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), freshly chosen by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Called the Advisory Committee on ...

A CDC advisory committee voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend only single-dose formulations of flu shots that do not contain the preservative thimerosal. The vote follows a shakeup of the Advisory ...

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

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), recently remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted Thursday in favor of only recommending flu shots that don’t contain the ...

You might recall that last month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauled a group of vaccine experts and replaced them with his own hand-picked panel. Now a matter that some vaccine experts ...

Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine safety, despite the science being crystal clear. At the heart of this ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend ...

The federal government could soon recommend that people only receive flu shots made without an ingredient called thimerosal. The preservative has been absent from the majority of flu vaccines for ...

In 2025, federal health agencies dismantled precedents in vaccine guidance, fracturing state-federal alignment and fueling concerns about public health guidance. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers took 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 called ...