Robert Kennedy Jr. signs recommendation eliminating mercury-based thimerosal from influenza vaccines, fulfilling anti-vaccine ...

Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine ...

The controversial preservative thimerosal will be stripped from all flu vaccines distributed in the United States.

Recently removed members of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory panel warn that Health and ...

Health experts told MedPage Today the view that all synthetic chemicals should be avoided is inaccurate -- and dangerous. For ...

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health successes of modern medicine. From smallpox to polio to measles, vaccines have saved millions of lives, protected entire generations from disability and ...

It comes weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force, which requires coverage for ...

ALPENA — Local health department officials say that mercury-based preservatives used in influenza immunizations do not affect long-term health, especially in children. U.S. Health and Human Services ...

Burns' position was noted in an April memo from CDC chief of staff Matt Buzzelli that was obtained by MedPage Today editor-in ...

Science does not support aluminum as a culprit of autism. Yet RFK Jr. and his associates continue to find ways to support the ...