The vaccine panel hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday voted ...

At the start of an unprecedented meeting of vaccine committee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

Lyn Redwood, who spread debunked claims about vaccines, will be in the CDC's Immunization Safety Office, multiple CDC ...

Dr. Levi and Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse affiliated with an anti-vaccine group, voted against recommending clesrovimab; the ...

The preservative thimerosal has been removed from all but a few vaccines, and studies have confirmed no link to ...

And this week, CDC scientists presented data from the 2024-2025 season that showed RSV hospitalizations fell 28% to 43% among infants aged 0 to 7 months, compared with pooled rates from 2018 to 2020.

Beyond thimerosal, which the CDC says data suggests is used in less than 0.3% of flu vaccines given to moms during pregnancy, Redwood has raised concerns about other vaccine ingredients.

In the 2024-25 flu season, 96% of flu vaccines given in the US and 98% of flu vaccines given through the CDC’s Vaccines for Children program were thimerosal-free, the CDC said in the document.

In opening Wednesday’s meeting, newly appointed ACIP chair Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., leaned into the controversy surrounding U ...