Pre- and postnatal thimerosal exposure was not linked with neuropsychological deficits. In 1999, the AAP and the U.S. Public Health Service suggested that vaccine manufacturers remove thimerosal ...

More than 75 Nobel laureates signed a letter asking the U.S. Senate not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human ...

Thimerosal, or sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, is a preservative used in low concentrations mainly in vaccines, cosmetics, ophthalmic and otolaryngolic medications, antitoxins, topical and ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced that Dave Weldon is his choice to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the federal government’s top public ...

CDC director nominee Weldon, a vaccine-skeptic, has raised questions about the safety of measles, mumps, rubella and HPV ...

President-elect Trump has finished making selections for the top public health roles in his incoming administration after he ...

Some are sounding the alarm regarding Trump's public health picks, concerned that the nominees' vaccine skepticism could ...

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health and human services secretary has raised significant concerns among scientists and public health officials.They ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a distinct pattern of cycling through extremes — including his early drug addiction, compulsive ...

A list of books removed or challenged in Florida schools was released over the weekend, and one author's name stood out. Not Margaret Atwood, although her classic book "The Handmaid's Tale," the ...

According to the Washington Post, Weldon was one of the few members of Congress to give credence to the theory that vaccines cause autism, and he pushed to have thimerosal removed from flu shots.

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