Is there a real link between thimerosal in vaccines and autism? Here's what Indian parents should know about mercury-based ...

Thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, has been used in multi-dose vaccine vials since the 1930s to prevent contamination. While concerns abou ...

Dr. Buddy Creech, the Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, said both the use of heavy metals in vaccines and ...

A large new study by Danish researchers found no definitive link between aluminum used in vaccines and autism risk.

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Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine ...

An extensive new Danish register-based study - the largest of its kind - supports the safety of the national childhood immunization program. Analyzing data from over 1 million children, the study ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to reform the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), pledging to address what he calls inefficiencies and corruption within ...

As one child dies of measles in Liverpool and others suffer from this most preventable of childhood diseases, why are parents ...

The nearly 40-year-old law that created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has received a lot of attention this month.

Doctors' offices say they're fielding more calls from parents worried about possible funding cuts to the children's vaccine ...

Sir Kenneth Calman, who has died aged 83, was appointed Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Scotland in 1989 before serving as ...