Decades of research show the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is safe in vaccines, but CDC's new advisory panel is ...

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

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

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

Dr. Payal Kohli weighs in on the CDC’s new advisory panel voting against thimerosal in flu vaccines—despite years of safety ...

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

Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s how we know it is safe and why we still use it in some vaccines given ...

What is Thimerosal, vaccine preservative called ‘toxic’ by US health chief? The mercury-based preservative was removed from most vaccines in 2001. Should it still be a concern today?

Here’s how thimerosal got into vaccines, why it's being taken out, and what the latest recommendation could mean for next season’s flu shots. What is thimerosal?

Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative used in medications or vaccines that come in vials with more than one dose. Pharmaceutical companies have used thimerosal in vaccines since the 1930s.

A federal vaccine panel recently reshaped by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has voted to discourage the use of flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative. The ...

Here’s how thimerosal got into vaccines, why it's being taken out, and what the latest recommendation could mean for next season’s flu shots. What is thimerosal? Thimerosal, which contains a form of ...