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...
The Bilirubin Bub
Faith healing is a scientifically accepted way-out. In Srinagar outskirts lives Abdul Qadir who treats more than 15000 patients a month and is considered...
Decimated By Drugs
Talking about drug abuse is the new fashion statement of the socio-political elite, media and academia. The menace has reached a level that now...
Receding Hairlines
Almost thirty per cent of the male population is literally carrying a crisis on their heads as baldness is impacting their self-esteem and confidence....
Rock Salt Solution
Abused for political reasons, many healthcare professionals insist the rock salt has more benefits, reports Afreen Mushtaq
A resident of SR Gunj, Ali Mohammad, 59...
Eating Dog Food
Punjabi poultry farmers have used politics to retain Kashmir as their main market to sell used layers and parents’ chicks’ that otherwise is dog...
Dateline SMHS
With their covered eyes and sullen faces, the young men admitted to various hospitals in Srinagar for various kind of injuries, offer a distinctly...
Phone Blindness?
Busy parents may find some solace by giving their kids to play with their phones but doctors say the smart-phone abuse by kids is...
(Ab)using Antibiotics
With hospitals finding no time to sterilise the operation theatres, the ICU in all the main hospitals is a source of infection, which sometimes...
Family Forgetfulness
Many men and women admitted to Kashmir’s only mental hospital were forgotten by their families after they got well. Zeenish Imroz and Irtiza Rafiq...
Body Explorer
Raised in a modest Eidgah family, when a bookish boy and a compulsive writer, got opportunity to prove his capacities, he started challenging the...
