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

Health experts were shocked to see that thimerosal, a preservative that has largely been phased out of U.S. vaccines, was on ...

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

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

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 ...

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?

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 ...

What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don’t Contain Mercury Anymore Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s ...

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.

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 ...