Although it has been largely phased out of U.S. vaccines, thimerosal has long been targeted by anti-vaccine advocates.

The federal government is recommending flu vaccines remove the preservative thimerosal after Health and Human Services ...

The U.S. Health Department, led by RFK Jr., has officially banned thimerosal from all flu vaccines, despite no proven harm, ...

T his winter’s most common flu strain is showing resistance to the frontline anti-flu treatment, new data shows. More than 10% of virus samples taken in Western Europe this winter were resistant ...

Greece has banned the export of two anti-flu drugs to safeguard its stockpiles in case a new strain of H1N1 flu hits the country, the Health Ministry said on Friday. Skip to main content.

There is some debate over whether the anti-flu drug Tamiflu could lessen or prevent the impact of bird flu. Only one company makes Tamiflu and the orders are flying in from around the world. As a ...

The meeting included a discussion of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and longtime target of the anti-vaccine world. It was removed from nearly all U.S. vaccines in 2001.

"We're at a key proof of principle stage right now," said Eddy Arnold, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers and one of the scientists workin ...

Bird flu is a crisis that’s unfolding in slow motion. We know for certain that it has killed 60 people. It may be years, even decades before it spreads easily from human to human and becomes ...

Roche said on Tuesday its investigational drug baloxavir marboxil reduced symptoms in people at high risk of complications from flu, a boost to the Swiss drugmaker's efforts to win approval for ...