Drugs: Kashmir’s Recovery Drive
Jammu and Kashmir’s anti-drug campaign is evolving into a coordinated system linking treatment, enforcement, and technology, with Jammu emerging as the new challenge even...
Kashmir: Bad Blood
In Kashmir, life for those with rare blood disorders unfolds quietly, beneath the surface of public health narratives. Marked by genetic legacies, strained healthcare...
Kashmir’s Madhouse: A Swiss Psychiatrist’s Story
In The Madhouse at the Lotus Lake, Erna Hoch’s memoir of psychiatric practice in 1980s Kashmir, the Swiss psychiatrist explores psychiatry’s fragile intersection with...
Why Do You Need Health Insurance Even If You Are Young and Healthy?
Young people naturally have a better defence mechanism, making them less prone to illnesses.
But unfortunately, contradictory to what anyone would like to believe, feeling...
Kashmir: Faith and Psychiatry
In Kashmir, healing unfolds not just in clinics but in mosques and shrines, where memory and faith converge with medicine, reports Syed Shadab Ali...
Kashmiri: Mind on Edge
Kashmir faces a deepening psychological crisis where conflict trauma, drug addiction, stigma, screen overexposure, joblessness and anger intertwine. Psychiatry battles neglect, faith, and silence,...
Kashmir: Heal The Hospital
Kashmir’s public healthcare system is collapsing under the weight of apathy and neglect. From the crowded wards of Srinagar’s tertiary hospitals to the under-equipped...
Kashmir’s Haemophilia Crisis
In the neglected corners of Kashmir’s healthcare system, hundreds of haemophilia patients struggle to survive without reliable treatment or life-saving medication. As government support...
Kashmir: The Embedded Memories
Masood Hussain’s account of living with a splinter wound in Kashmir becomes a lens to explore how violence embeds itself physically in people’s lives,...
Kashmir: Cats, Dogs, Chaos
Kashmir recorded over 12,800 animal bite cases in a year, with cat exposures rising sharply amid growing pet culture. Experts warn of rabies risk...
Kashmir: War’s Mental Scars
The echoes of recent conflict linger not only in shattered homes but in wounded minds. As the dust settles after a near-war episode, a...
Cancer’s New Antidote
An Indian biotech start-up has secured a global first: a patented, third-generation CAR-T therapy that targets cancer with unprecedented precision—offering new hope for affordable,...
Kashmir: Smoking Fuels Cancer Surge
Lung cancer remains one of the most overlooked health crises in Kashmir. While globally half of the smokers get the lethal disease, a growing...
Kashmir’s Mindscape: Trauma and Healing
Kashmir’s psychological landscape, shaped by faith and conflict, has evolved through psychiatry. Dr Mushtaq Margoob tells Azra Hussain how the region’s shift from stigma...
Kashmir’s Infertility Epidemic
With economic well-being overtaking the basic family institution, Kashmir tops the list of places where late marriages are the new norm. Coupled with tensions...
