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The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women.

A new analysis found that nearly 700 drugs approved for use in the United States depend on chemicals solely produced in China.

The president's call for removal of the metal from childhood inoculations set off alarms. About half of shots for polio, whooping cough and other diseases would be affected.

Testing proved that a Long Island woman had been exposed to the mosquito-borne virus, which is more commonly seen in the Caribbean and Central and South America.

The Trump administration's embrace of unproven or debunked theories about vaccines and Tylenol has left doctors fielding questions from worried parents.

The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics.

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.

Scientists who focused on other infectious diseases, like Ebola, now spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also were let go.

"Disease detectives," high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

In a 1973 heist, he and another man held hostages who surprisingly came to defend them, drawing attention to a puzzling psychological phenomenon.