A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

A federal vaccine panel recently reshaped by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has voted to discourage the use of ...

A CDC advisory panel voted 5–1 to recommend only flu vaccines without the preservative thimerosal, a mercury-containing ...

A CDC panel’s vote to stop recommending thimerosal-containing flu shots would have limited impact, but it illustrates how the ...

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

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted to recommend annual flu vaccines but against flu shots containing the preservative thimerosal ...

Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 16 randomised clinical trials comparing inactivated high-dose (60 µg haemagglutinin antigen load per strain) and standard-dose (15 µg haemagglutinin antigen ...

CDC advisory committee recommends thimerosal-free influenza vaccines for all adults and children, despite claims that the mercury-based preservative poses no health risks.

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