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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...
An Elusive Ambulance
The government spends billions on social service delivery system but GMCs associated hospitals have one critical care ambulance and SKIMS has none, reports Saima...
Lineage of Dissent
A series of studies commissioned to understand various genetic disorders revealed stunning realities that genetically Kashmir gene pool is hugely closer to Turkish, Iranian...
Obsession, A Compulsion!
A vast section of the population are victims of a psychological disorder that threatens lives and livelihoods but are rarely taken seriously, reports Saima...
Sameer Koul on Cancer in Kashmir
A surgeon for nearly three decades, Dr Sameer Koul has a global exposure in managing the people afflicted by cancer. He has never stopped...
Antibiotic Apocalypse
by Raees ul Hamid Paul
Striking a cautionary note at the end of his Noble speech on December 11, 1945, Alexander Fleming had said, “The...
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...
