A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

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

The ACIP is a federal advisory committee composed of medical and public health experts who make recommendations on the use of vaccines for adults and children in the US.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...

This vote will be inconsequential in terms of vaccine delivery in the U.S., as almost all our influenza vaccines do not contain this ingredient -- just 4% to 5% of flu vaccines administered in the ...

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats are demanding a briefing with staff from the Centers for Disease ...

Inside one of those nondescript rooms last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an independent panel that makes vaccine recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

During the session on flu vaccines, the ACIP also voted to continue recommending routine annual flu shots for anyone older than six months who would otherwise be at risk from the virus.

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 vote came from a newly appointed group of people that now make up the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), led by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Vaccine advisory board votes to remove controversial mercury-based compound from flu vax The advisory board ended a nearly 30-year crusade to remove the neurotoxin thimerosal from vaccines, which many ...