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CDC advisory committee recommends thimerosal-free influenza vaccines for all adults and children, despite claims that the mercury-based preservative poses no health risks.
A startling new vision of vaccination in America is becoming clearer — one likely to involve fresh scrutiny of established ...
A CDC advisory panel voted 5–1 to recommend only flu vaccines without the preservative thimerosal, a mercury-containing ...
The preservative is called Thimerosal, and it's included in just 4% of existing flu vaccines, used to help prevent ...
Taking aim at a longtime target of anti-vaccine activists, CDC advisors said Thursday that the U.S. should not administer ...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel, recently restructured by Health and Human Services Secretary ...
A newly-appointed vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has wrapped up a two-day meeting in Atlanta with recommendations for this year’s immunization schedule ...
Hand‑picked CDC panel endorses flu shots for all but recommends avoiding thimerosal vials—a win for skeptics that may affect ...
A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that ...
An infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota uncovered a fake citation and errors just before they were presented Thursday to an influential federal panel considering safety concerns ...
New vaccine advisers endorse this fall’s flu vaccinations for just about every American but throw in a twist: Only use certain shots free of thimerosal.
A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on thimerosal ...