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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.

Cancer Crisis

While the number of cancer patient has phenomenally increased, the management system within the health sector is sluggish in adopting the new system of...

Mirror Haters

An autoimmune disease that leads patches of skin to lose their pigment shows first in body parts exposed to the sun. It gradually spreads...

Swine Scare

In anticipation of bone-chilling winter, the people have started felling victim to the scare that HINI is around. Saima Bhat reports that the virus has...

Injuries from firearm, pellets and airway problem emanating from shelling is an additional, challenging...

In an election held after seven years, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) elected Dr Suhail Naik 35, a pediatrician, as its president. Hailing from Shopian...

Exercise:Four things you should know

Workouts don’t just keep you physically fit, they contribute to your mental well-being as well. Najar Javaid Ibn Gul explains how Weight loss, burning calories...

Lone Survivor

Once it was the most crowded place for patients seeking remedy. As the English system of medicine, overtook the traditional Unani system, Kulgam’s Gopalpora...

Murdered Motherhood?

Lack of facilities and staff in state run hospitals is putting the lives of Kashmir’s mothers and their babies in danger. Saima Bhat spends some...

Malwan’s Braid Choppers

Mysterious hair cutting incidents started in central India early this year and literally followed the road to Kashmir. Restricted to restive South Kashmir, Kulgam...

Bequeathing Vision

For the first time in history, 13 blind or one-eyed patients underwent eye transplants in Srinagar’s SMHS hospital and started seeing again, some after...

Technology Addiction

Parents are frequently talking about their kids using smart phones and other communication gadgets for ‘time-pass’. It is gradually leading to addiction and to...

Stomach Ulcers

Kashmir may be one of the few spots across Asia where stomach ulcers are above average, Zeenat Farooq details the prognosis and the treatment...

Eating Disorders

Zeenat Farooq A balanced, healthy meal forms the basis of human health and avoiding unhealthy, high calorie food is a part of the learned behaviour....

Nutrition in Cancer

Minors fighting life-threatening diseases like cancer need special diets, writes Zeenat Farooq Children need proper nutrition because they are at a growing age and their...

Understanding Addiction

By Zeenat Farooq Addiction is the physical or psychological dependence on a substance that is beyond the control of the person. Usually, its demands go...

Probe the Fall

If an individual had an abrupt, unexplained fall, avoid keeping it a secret. Go to the doctor because it could an unexplained crisis in...