Nominations and appropriations remain at the forefront of the Senate's agenda for the final scheduled workweek before August ...

A lawyer who represents Children's Health Defense—the rabid anti-vaccine organization founded by the equally fervent ...

The United States will stop distributing all influenza vaccines that contain mercury-based preservative thimerosal, marking ...

The mercury-based preservative thimerosal will be removed from all flu shots distributed in United States, Health and Human ...

Vaccine makers removed thimerosal from roughly 95 percent of flu vaccinations in 1999 following unfounded claims about ...

About 5 per cent of flu shots given in the US in the last flu season were multi-dose vials that contained the preservative, ...

The federal government is recommending flu vaccines remove the preservative thimerosal after Health and Human Services ...

Key Takeaways Susan Monarez may soon become director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionShe would be the first to go through a Senate confirmation processThe vote passed along ...

In a move that raises questions about its future role and composition, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s office has called off a scheduled meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The ...

Former GOP leader Mitch McConnell is back at the Senate Appropriations table for the first time in two decades today as the full panel begins marking up three key spending bills.

Senate committee advances Susan Monarez’s CDC nomination on party-line vote Monarez would be first CDC director confirmed by Senate under 2023 law Controversy swirls around her stance on ...