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Health

This section is a detailed listing of the various facets of staying healthy in Jammu and Kashmir. It has copies about the diseases, research, practitioners, the infrastructure and the economics of it. Exceptional individuals and institutions are profiled also.

The Bilirubin Bub

Faith healing is a scientifically accepted way-out. In Srinagar outskirts lives Abdul Qadir who treats more than 15000 patients a month and is considered...

Decimated By Drugs

Talking about drug abuse is the new fashion statement of the socio-political elite, media and academia. The menace has reached a level that now...

Receding Hairlines

Almost thirty per cent of the male population is literally carrying a crisis on their heads as baldness is impacting their self-esteem and confidence....

Rock Salt Solution

Abused for political reasons, many healthcare professionals insist the rock salt has more benefits, reports Afreen Mushtaq A resident of SR Gunj, Ali Mohammad, 59...

Eating Dog Food

Punjabi poultry farmers have used politics to retain Kashmir as their main market to sell used layers and parents’ chicks’ that otherwise is dog...

Dateline SMHS

With their covered eyes and sullen faces, the young men admitted to various hospitals in Srinagar for various kind of injuries, offer a distinctly...

Phone Blindness?

Busy parents may find some solace by giving their kids to play with their phones but doctors say the smart-phone abuse by kids is...

(Ab)using Antibiotics

With hospitals finding no time to sterilise the operation theatres, the ICU in all the main hospitals is a source of infection, which sometimes...

Family Forgetfulness

Many men and women admitted to Kashmir’s only mental hospital were forgotten by their families after they got well. Zeenish Imroz and Irtiza Rafiq...

Body Explorer

Raised in a modest Eidgah family, when a bookish boy and a compulsive writer, got opportunity to prove his capacities, he started challenging the...

An Elusive Ambulance

The government spends billions on social service delivery system but GMCs associated hospitals have one critical care ambulance and SKIMS has none, reports Saima...

Lineage of Dissent

A series of studies commissioned to understand various genetic disorders revealed stunning realities that genetically Kashmir gene pool is hugely closer to Turkish, Iranian...

Obsession, A Compulsion!

A vast section of the population are victims of a psychological disorder that threatens lives and livelihoods but are rarely taken seriously, reports Saima...

Sameer Koul on Cancer in Kashmir

A surgeon for nearly three decades, Dr Sameer Koul has a global exposure in managing the people afflicted by cancer. He has never stopped...

Antibiotic Apocalypse

by Raees ul Hamid Paul   Striking a cautionary note at the end of his Noble speech on December 11, 1945, Alexander Fleming had said, “The...