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Browsing: 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.

Health
Vitamin D Story

by Zeenat Farooq Vitamin D or the sunshine vitamin is a vitamin sub-type under the class of Fat-Soluble Vitamins. It…

Health
Make Your Skin Glow

Skin is fundamental for looking attractive. Dr Zeenat Farooq identifies factors that accelerate the skin ageing Looking attractive is something…

Health
Understanding Chilblains

by Azra Hussain Chilblains often confused with frostbite and trench foot is an ailment which occurs when skin is exposed…

Cover Story
The Pain Manager

Pain is part of life and global in nature. Dr Tariq Tramboo, Kashmir’s young inventor doctor has done pioneering work…

Health
SAD Winter Blues

Winters come with cold, low sunlight and a lot of snow and craving for cosy environs. In certain cases, it…

Health
Not So Healthy Habits

by Zeenat Farooq The advent of the twenty-first century has brought with it the gifts of luxury, entertainment, technology and…

Health
Delaying Emergencies

Kashmir’s roads and the situation send more people in trauma to the hospital than any other area in the region.…

Agriculture
Walnut Falls

Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last…

Faith
The Bilirubin Bub

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

Health
Receding Hairlines

Almost thirty per cent of the male population is literally carrying a crisis on their heads as baldness is impacting…

Health
Rock Salt Solution

Abused for political reasons, many healthcare professionals insist the rock salt has more benefits, reports Afreen Mushtaq A resident of…

Business
Eating Dog Food

Punjabi poultry farmers have used politics to retain Kashmir as their main market to sell used layers and parents’ chicks’…

Conflict
Dateline SMHS

With their covered eyes and sullen faces, the young men admitted to various hospitals in Srinagar for various kind of…

Health
Phone Blindness?

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

Health
(Ab)using Antibiotics

With hospitals finding no time to sterilise the operation theatres, the ICU in all the main hospitals is a source…

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