Trump greenlights using medicaid data to track and deport illegal migrants; why this legal ‘breach’ should worry AmericansThe Trump administration authorized ICE to access Medicaid data. This included sensitive information of 79 million enrollees. The goal was ...
18 Jul, 2025, 12.53 PM IST
Will the Supreme Court limit free Cancer screenings and preventive drugs under Obamacare? Who has challenged the ACA and why?As the justices prepare to hear arguments, the stakes remain high, not only for cancer screening and cholesterol medication access, but for...
19 Apr, 2025, 11.10 PM IST
'Will continue to deport these monsters': Trump celebrates Supreme court ruling on deporting drug cartel membersThe US Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to pursue deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 1798 law that histori...
09 Apr, 2025, 02.29 PM IST
Bengal CID begins probe into administration of 'expired' intravenous fluid to patientsThe West Bengal CID interrogated hospital staff following the death of a woman and critical illness of three others after childbirth, due t...
15 Jan, 2025, 01.01 AM IST
US states sue over Biden rule extending health insurance to DACA immigrantsSeveral Republican-led states have sued to prevent the Biden administration from permitting up to 200,000 immigrants, brought to the U.S. i...
11 Aug, 2024, 09.42 AM IST
Norms soon on disposing of expired medicinesThe document is in the final stages of completion. It will include procedures to be followed for disposal, collection, storage and transpor...
27 Jun, 2024, 12.54 AM IST
The Abortion pill ruling: What's happened, what's at stake, what's nextThe Supreme Court ruled to maintain the FDA's approval of mifepristone, a commonly used abortion pill, while an appeal moves forward, in a ...
22 Apr, 2023, 11.03 AM IST
Biden federal employee COVID vaccine mandate reinstated by the U.S. courtOn Thursday, a U.S. court of federal appeals overturned the decision that had previously blocked the White House from requiring federal wor...
08 Apr, 2022, 08.06 PM IST
Black fungus: More to it than just steroidsDr Uma Kumar, head of rheumatology at AIIMS, reasoned, “We have used steroids for weeks, months and in some cases, years, but in my career,...
22 May, 2021, 11.51 AM IST
Hospital has right to insist on payment but prime duty is to take care of patient: NCDRCA bench of presiding member S M Kantikar and Dinesh Singh awarded the compensation to the deceased patient's wife Yashumati Devi noting tha...
30 Aug, 2020, 04.24 PM IST
China's foreign ministry accuses US of improperly entering its consulate in HoustonU.S.-Chinese relations have plunged to their lowest level in decades amid conflicts over trade, technology, Hong Kong, spying accusations a...
25 Jul, 2020, 07.12 PM IST
Trump admin ignored concern over hydroxychloroquine import from India, Pakistan: Fired US scientistIn a complaint filed on Tuesday before the US Office of Special Counsel, which oversees the protection of whistleblowers, Rick Bright alleg...
06 May, 2020, 11.44 AM IST
No oversight, poor record-keeping led to Kota deathsThe probes have blamed this lack of supervision as mainly responsible for the poor management of the hospital. The preliminary re-ports hav...
08 Jan, 2020, 11.27 PM IST
From politics to religious practice, SC turned referee in many arenas in 20162016 will go down in history as one of those years when the relationship between the judiciary and the executive touched the nadir.
30 Dec, 2016, 11.47 AM IST
CAG finds serious lapses at railway hospitalsThe CAG has also drawn attention to the absence of incinerators and supply of substandard drugs at many railway hospitals.
17 Dec, 2014, 06.59 PM IST
- Narco, lie-detector test, brain mapping illegal, rules SC
Supreme Court held narco-analysis, polygraph and brain mapping illegal.
06 May, 2010, 06.04 AM IST
- Make Tamiflu widely available
It's better to have many outlets for diagnoses & distribution of medicines.
12 Aug, 2009, 03.29 AM IST