The Senate health committee voted on partisan lines Wednesday morning to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director, Susan Monarez, advancing her ...

He directed the CDC to remove the recommendation that children and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 vaccines. "No one from CDC who works on vaccine policy was involved in that process.

Politics have largely stayed out of Julie Linton’s South Carolina pediatrician’s office over the years — that is, until ...

Health experts were shocked to see that thimerosal, a preservative that has largely been phased out of U.S. vaccines, was on ...

An expert committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on June 26 to cease recommending the use of a mercury-based chemical called thimerosal in flu vaccines. Only a ...

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee sent a letter to the CDC chief of staff on Thursday, demanding answers over recent ...

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

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet next week, but their agenda suggests they’ll skip some expected topics — including a vote on Covid shots — while ...

RFK Jr. Overhauls CDC Vaccine Panel, Sparking Expert Backlash, Boycott From Top Medical Group. ... On Wednesday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices reconvened under controversy, ...

A new group of seven outside CDC vaccine advisers met for the first time on Wednesday after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed the previous 17 advisers. Mike Stewart/AP.

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted to recommend annual flu vaccines but against flu shots containing the preservative thimerosal. ABC News. Live. Video. Shows. Shop. Log In. Stream on.

CDC vaccine advisers to vote on thimerosal in flu shots at first meeting of new panel By . Meg Tirrell. Updated Jun 18, 2025, 3:59 PM ET. PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2025, 2:31 PM ET.