The likelihood of antiviral prescribing and dispensing among patients with influenza varied by care setting, patient age, and underlying medical conditions.

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

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

Moderna's new flu vaccine, based on the same mRNA technology used in its COVID-19 shot, showed promising results in a major ...

The votes on vaccine recommendations are the first move by the panel after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Health New advisory panel recommends flu shots only if they don’t contain a certain preservative Published: Jun. 26, 2025, 5:05 p.m.

The panel's majority vote to recommend against flu vaccines with thimerosal is unlikely to impact many Americans, since the mercury-based preservative is already rarely used in the shots.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory group has voted to stop using flu shots that contain thimerosal. CNN’s Meg Tirrell breaks down the research ...

The new panel backed flu shots, except multi-dose vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative. Although thimerosal has been widely discredited as a health risk, Kennedy and other ...

Kennedy had fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices earlier this month. Thimerosal has been in use in medicine for nearly a century. It has repeatedly been studied and ...

Kennedy’s advisers back flu vaccination, but not shots with a rarely used preservative Pediatricians and other doctors' groups pointed to new panelists' lack of expertise in how to properly ...