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....
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...
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...
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...
