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Experts in vaccines and vaccination — including pediatricians — work together throughout the year to update the Recommended ...

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

Dr. Buddy Creech, the Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, said both the use of heavy metals in vaccines and their causation of autism are decades-old rumors.