12."Covered a lamp with a towel because it was too dark for pre-teen me to sleep without the lamp, but too bright to try and ...

Federal guidelines no longer recommend flu vaccines containing a preservative, used in a small percentage of vaccines, that has been falsely linked to autism.

Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services has adopted a recommendation to remove a preservative called thimerosal from all influenza vaccines distributed in the United States.

HHS announced on Wednesday that it has adopted a recommendation from a CDC committee to remove thimerosal from all influenza vaccines.

The United States will stop distributing all influenza vaccines that contain mercury-based preservative thimerosal, marking the latest move by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has approved a major Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recommendation to remove mercury-based thimerosal from all flu vaccines ...

For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine ...

Although it has been largely phased out of U.S. vaccines, thimerosal has long been targeted by anti-vaccine advocates.

Novavax reports strong immune responses from H5N1 avian flu vaccine candidate, showing promise in single and two-dose preclinical studies.

However, the AAP addressed the safety of thimerosal-containing vaccines in its flu vaccine recommendations, and in a recent FactChecked article.

RFK Jr. approves a nationwide shift to mercury-free flu vaccines, ending decades of thimerosal use amid rising safety and public health concerns.