US regulators have announced plans to begin monitoring microplastics and pharmaceutical residues in drinking water, marking a first step towards assessing potential health risks and shaping future regulation.

An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood has claimed the lives of four people, according to the city’s Department of Health.

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to slash 10,000 full-time employees across different departments, as he works to reshape the nation’s federal health agencies, the department said Thursday.