STAT+: HHS orders thimerosal out of all flu vaccines
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You\u2019re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT\u2019s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays.<\/em><\/p>\n Alex Hogan did yeoman\u2019s work of taste testing beef-tallow-fried chicken wings and fries, soda pop made with cane sugar, and ice cream free of fake dyes. Alex\u2019s video is worth the watch<\/a> if only to hear him exclaim \u201cMahhh-ket Basket\u201d as he approaches the New England institution. Can you taste the difference between food fried in seed oils and beef tallow or drinks made with high-fructose corn syrup and cane sugar? Tip jar: John.Wilkerson@statnews.com<\/a> or John_Wilkerson.07 on Signal.<\/p>\n HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formally accepted recommendations that would eliminate thimerosal from the remaining 4% of flu vaccines that still contain the mercury-based preservative, Helen Branswell writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\nNo more thimerosal<\/h2>\n