‘In Kashmir, 3-5 Women Are Diagnosed With Breast Cancer Daily’
Breast cancer is steadily emerging as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in Kashmir. In a detailed conversation with Kashmir Life, noted...
Kashmir: Classrooms In Panic
Panic attacks among Kashmir students are rising due to stress, stigma and poor institutional support, with experts urging awareness, counsellors and early intervention, reports...
Kashmir: Diagnostic Discomfort
Women in Kashmir face distress and delayed care due to scarce female diagnosticians, forcing uncomfortable scans, triggering trauma, avoidance behaviours, and exposing gaps in...
Kashmir: The Golden Card Impact
Across Jammu and Kashmir, families long burdened by medical uncertainty are experiencing a quiet transformation, as health-insurance coverage replaces fear with dignity, timely treatment,...
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...
