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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.

Fear of Missing Out

With the internet accessible like water and social media sucking the new generation into it, there are various abnormalities that are emerging in the...

Returning the Debt

Within less than seven decades after the British Christian Missionaries introduced the modern allopathic system of medicine to Kashmir, a Srinagar-based doctor, Dr Ghulam...
anxiety, dementia, kashmir mind, tension

Dementia Capital

With Jammu and Kashmir recording the highest prevalence of dementia across India, the researchers are desperate to find answers to a trend that many...

Kashmir’s Bone Setters

Till orthopaedics graduated as a key biological science, Kashmir, like many other societies, would get its bone corrections from the bone setters. Nidah Mehraj...

The SKIMS Story

In the 40 years of its existence, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), a deemed university, has emerged as a key research and...

March Maniacs

A chain of violent incidents within families and relationships dominated the first half of March. These crimes may have something to do with disturbed...

‘Some Haakh Varieties Have High Anticancer Potential against Prostate and Lung Cancer Cells’

A junior scientist at SKUAST-K, Dr Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is an award-winning biotechnologist who has been working on cancer biology. Founder of Kashmir’s first...

‘Failure In Detecting Early Is The Reason Behind High Mortality Rates In Cancer’.

After spending a lot of time trying to locate the particular molecules that play a role in diverse cancers, Dr Zahida Qamri changed her career path...

‘Our Gut  Is Our Second Brain’

Kashmir neuroscientist, Dr Zahoor Shah, currently teaching at the University of Toledo, Ohio, is investigating the Gut-Brain axis in understanding various brain disorders, including...

Kashmir’s Hikmat and Hakeem

Till the early twentieth century, the entire healthcare system was run by the Unani system of medicine with Hakeem’s at the apex of the...

‘We Have Found Three Inhibitors That Reduce Pain During Cancer’

Dr Muzaffar A Macha has been a ‘golden boy’ throughout. At AIIMS and abroad and now home as head of IUST’s Watson-Crick Centre for...

Making Cancer Fight Cancer

After a series of failures in various laboratories across the globe, Dr Khalid Shah, a young Kashmir scientist, currently, a professor at the Harvard...

Golden Card’s Silver Lining

With almost 90 per cent of Jammu and Kashmir's population covered under cashless health insurance, the Ayushman Bharat scheme and almost Rs 1000 crore...

A Generation In Crisis

A kick to look for the thrill, feel good and forget troubles, a disproportionate number of youth are in substance abuse. Often started in...

‘60 Ladakh Spring Bacteria Produce Antibiotics against Different Diseases’

Awarded for his research in microbiology last week, CSIR-IIIM Principle Scientist, Dr Zahoor Ahmad Parray has been primarily working on the drugs involving Tuberculosis....