A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

Infectious disease specialist Monica Gandhi, MD examines recent claims about the safety of thimerosal, a preservative used in ...

Thimerosal is an organomercury preservative used in vaccines and other biological products, distinguished by its rapid ...

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

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...

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

What is thimerosal? The rarely-used vaccine preservative targeted by RFK Jr - Thimerosal has long been considered safe by ...

There's no solid evidence that thimerosal harms children. It was removed from almost all vaccines more than 20 years ago out of an abundance of caution, but RFK Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine advisory ...

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

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

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.

Thimerosal is a chemical compound that's about 50% mercury by weight, according to the FDA, and has been used in trace amounts as a preservative in vaccines and medicines since the 1930s.