A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accepted recommendations made by a panel of vaccine experts in April, ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the removal of the preservative thimerosal in seasonal influenza vaccines at their meeting.

Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reduced a key government immunizations committee to a “talk show” by ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reconstituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has already embraced ...

Thimerosal has been a target of groups that question vaccine safety. What vaccines still contain the mercury compound, and what would happen if the recommendations against its use become official?

And this time, it’s not just fringe actors fanning the flames. It’s policymakers. It’s media personalities. It’s individuals ...

The CDC panel voted against an ingredient that the anti-vaccine movement has long targeted, while Arcadia was acquired by ...

"This is a very clear effort to shine a light on this anti-vaccine trope: that thimerosal is somehow dangerous.” ...

The preservative is in a small share of flu shots and has been studied for decades. Experts say it’s safe — despite Kennedy’s long opposition.

Brewer was terminated by Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the vaccine advisory panel in June.

Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD, MPH, of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who has been leading the ...