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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.

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Dangerous Delay

A respected religious leader wanted to build a maternity hospital in Anantnag. After spending Rs 2.86 crore on a huge building, the Trust founder...
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Surviving The Heroin Crush

After almost nine quiet deaths in north Kashmir, there are scores literally fighting for life as they have spent millions in managing their Heroin-thirst....

Controlled AIDS

For the stigma attached to the disease, the trend of people showing up for HIV tests is uncommon in Kashmir. The data available also...

Science Behind Ramadan Fasting

by Dr Zeenat Farooq Apart from the spiritual experience that a person undergoes during Ramadan fasting, there are tremendous scientific benefits of the month-long fasting....
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Body Beautiful

Gone are the days when the girls were under pressure to look good. The social media has pushed men to the same trap and...

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 is a complex poly-hydroxy sterol...
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The Killer Heroin

Gone are the days when Heroin was just passing through Kashmir. Now its use is gradually overtaking other drugs and the economically well-off are...

Kashmir’s Organ Donors

When a Sikh girl from Udhampur heard her Muslim friend from Rajouri, admitted in SKIMS, requires a kidney, she took moments to offer one....

Make Your Skin Glow

Skin is fundamental for looking attractive. Dr Zeenat Farooq identifies factors that accelerate the skin ageing Looking attractive is something fundamental. A healthy and young...

Understanding Chilblains

by Azra Hussain Chilblains often confused with frostbite and trench foot is an ailment which occurs when skin is exposed to cold air and then...

The Pain Manager

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

SAD Winter Blues

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

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 comfort. These make our daily...

Delaying Emergencies

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

Walnut Falls

Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last few years. Muhammad Younis...