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The Senate health committee voted to confirm Trump's CDC nominee, Susan Monarez. All 12 Republicans voted for her, but no Democrats joined.
A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...
Infectious disease specialist Monica Gandhi, MD examines recent claims about the safety of thimerosal, a preservative used in ...
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...
The CDC's newly constituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has voted to recommend the removal of vaccine preservative, thimerosal, that has become a focal point for activists ...
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee endorsed fall flu vaccinations Thursday for just about every American but with a twist: The group says people should ...
The resolution also called for the AMA to "initiate sustained public advocacy" in support of the current ACIP structure, including its liaison representatives, and to "identify and evaluate ...
Kennedy's mass "retirement" of the former ACIP membership was carried out amid claims that they had been "rubber stamping" decisions that benefit the pharma industry, and raised immediate concerns ...
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?