News

A CDC panel’s vote to stop recommending thimerosal-containing flu shots would have limited impact, but it illustrates how the anti-vaccine movement is achieving its goals.
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.
A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...
Studies suggest that as many as one in ten of us look to the growing army of chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, or ...
But the removal would probably make flu vaccines ... a longtime anti-vaccine activist before he joined the Trump administration, to chip away at vaccine policies. Here’s what to know about thimerosal: ...
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at health insurers' vows to improve prior authorization, Bell Labs’ IP commercialization, a new healthcare billionaire, a robot performing ...
A former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense will present this week on thimerosal in flu vaccines at a ...
Lyn Redwood, who spread debunked claims about vaccines, will be in the CDC's Immunization Safety Office, multiple CDC ...
The vaccine panel hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to drop federal recommendations for seasonal flu shots that ...
The meeting offered a glimpse into how the new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will operate — and how federal vaccine policy is beginning to reflect Kennedy’s personal views.
Health experts were shocked to see that thimerosal, a preservative that has largely been phased out of U.S. vaccines, was on ...