Health data cover up? 100+ US government datasets quietly altered without warningA report reveals that over 100 United States government health datasets faced alterations earlier this year. These changes, often without p...
15 Jul, 2025, 08.24 PM IST
Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programsUS Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's plan to "Make America Healthy Again" faces challenges as government cuts eliminate over a dozen dat...
04 May, 2025, 07.11 PM IST
Donald Trump is facing multiple legal cases with in two months of becoming US President. Here are latest developmentsUSA President Donald Trump is facing a number of legal cases over policy issues.
24 Mar, 2025, 07.50 PM IST
Donald Trump is looking to boot transgender troops from military. Here's why that's complicatedPresident Trump has issued an order to remove transgender individuals with gender dysphoria from the military, citing concerns about milita...
29 Jan, 2025, 08.04 PM IST
In US, transgender candidates enter political lion's denTransgender and nonbinary former teacher Mel Manuel is running for US Congress in Louisiana as a Democrat despite knowing the slim chances ...
01 Nov, 2024, 09.31 AM IST
Tripura: 47 students died of HIV infection, 828 tested positiveA senior official from the Tripura State AIDS Control Society (TSACS) reported that 47 students have died from HIV in Tripura, and 828 have...
06 Jul, 2024, 07.07 AM IST
Transgender prisoners must be treated at par with other inmates: says SC panel on prison reformsThe Supreme Court Committee on Prison Reforms has recommended that transgender prisoners should be treated equally and given the same right...
31 Aug, 2023, 03.59 PM IST
Multiple studies suggest men are more likely to die of Covid, and the reason is beyond complicatedWhy Are Men More Likely to Die of COVID? It's Complicated.
25 Jan, 2022, 07.21 PM IST
Quickly saturate the first dose coverage among the 18 plus population category: Union Health Secretary Rajesh BhushanBhushan chaired a high-level review meeting and stated states must also focus on the 60 plus age group as the coverage of both the doses in...
04 Sep, 2021, 08.51 PM IST
When bias hurts the mother of invention: Gender gap affects health innovations targeted at womenMost medical innovations were designed by men who overlooked women's needs.
18 Jun, 2021, 05.20 PM IST
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to visit India this monthThe visit comes on the heels of the Indian-origin CEO recently voicing concerns over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) - Saty...
13 Feb, 2020, 04.52 PM IST
Draft data protection bill allows processing sans consent for security, credit scores, debt recoveryThe draft Data Protection Bill will allow processing of private data without explicit consent of the owner.
10 Dec, 2019, 08.27 PM IST
IT Ministry may back storage curbs for critical, sensitive data; not for all personal infoThe IT ministry feels that there are adequate safeguards in the proposed Bill.
23 Jul, 2019, 04.10 PM IST
India Inc looks at wider LGBTQ inclusionGodrej India Culture Lab to help cos shape up policy for transgender people, to come out with manifesto highlighting their condition.
10 Dec, 2018, 11.49 PM IST
Srikrishna panel makes exception for government to collect, store, use personal dataThe bill states that personal data may be processed by the State if it is necessary for function of Parliament.
28 Jul, 2018, 04.58 PM IST
87 per cent unaware of HIV+ status, may be infecting othersNACO estimate shows over 22 million people were tested during 2013-14, of which 2,40,234 people were HIV positive.
02 Dec, 2014, 01.18 PM IST
Over 30,000 transgenders in Tamil Nadu, yet only 2,996 are votersReflecting woes of transgenders who have remained social 'untouchables' with restricted access to education & jobs, only a minuscule 2,996 ...
28 Feb, 2014, 10.08 AM IST