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The meeting included a discussion of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and longtime target of the anti-vaccine world.

A CDC panel’s vote to stop recommending thimerosal-containing flu shots would have limited impact, but it illustrates how the ...

A CDC advisory panel has recommended that the preservative thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines, a largely symbolic move ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted to recommend annual flu vaccines but against flu shots containing the preservative ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), recently remade by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Used in very low amounts, thimerosal has been used since the 1930s to prevent contamination in multidose vaccine vials, and ...

In adults 50 and older, Moderna’s flu shot was more than 26% better than an unspecified commercial vaccine. In May, the ...

A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that ...

A key vaccine policy advisory group is recommending the public not receive vaccines that have thimerosal, a ...

Thimerosal is only used in multi-dose vials of flu shots in the US during the 2024-25 flu season, despite decades of studies ...