A preservative removed from childhood vaccines 20 years ago is still causing controversy today − a drug safety expert explains
- Written by Terri Levien, Professor of Pharmacy, Washington State University
A discredited study published in 1989 first alleged a link between thimerosal and autism.Flavio Coelho/Moment via Getty ImagesAn expert committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines is meeting for the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly replaced the committee’s 17 members with...