The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is set to vote later this week on the issue of thimerosal in flu vaccines. All eight members of the committee, many of whom have spoken out ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), recently remade by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

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A CDC advisory committee voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend only single-dose formulations of flu shots that do not contain the preservative thimerosal. The vote follows a shakeup of the Advisory ...

High levels of mercury are known to damage the nervous system and kidneys. In addition, studies in the Faroe Islands, the Seychelles, and Iraq showed that fetuses might be harmed when pregnant women ...

A team of cell biologists, toxicologists and molecular bioscientists has published a study connecting thimerosal with disruptions in antigen-presenting cells known as dendritic cells obtained from ...

Thimerosal is an organic compound that is 49.6 percent ethylmercury. Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis-based drug giant, developed and registered thimerosal under its trade name Merthiolate in 1929 ...

The latest study to give thimerosal a clean bill of health-- though not without a few troubling caveats-- has prompted some to second-guess the FDA's decision to remove thimerosal from most infant ...