Ah! Cold
There is no cure for common cold or Zukam as such. But a few dos and don’ts can help you sail through harsh winters...
Processed Foods: Just Empty Calories or Something Worse?
Away from parental check, Kashmir youth are consuming Junk Food at an alarming rate thus harming their health. Scholar Zeenat Farooq decodes the ‘Processed...
Treating Differently
Spread across Kashmir ISM centers give patients both hope and alternatives. Saima Bhat reports how Unani medicine is helping cure diseases without disturbing a...
Anti-Oxidants: Magic Molecules Against Pro-Oxidant Menace?
By Zeenat Farooq
ANTI-OXIDANTS are the substances which quench pro-oxidants in an oxidation-reduction reaction. These can vary in chemical structure and complexity ranging from simple...
Path Breakers
Three medical breakthroughs last year had a common Kashmiri thread in them. Be it brain tumour, AIDs or TB, Kashmiri researchers redefined the global...
Diabetes: An Underestimated, Misunderstood Disorder
As Kashmir is struggling with an increasing number of diabetic patients, Scholar Zeenat Farooq writes about the reasons, symptoms and measures to be taken...
Stress: Operation, Management & Our Responsibility
Twenty five years of conflict has cost Kashmir at many levels. Of late, stress is a major concern in Valley. Scholar Zeenat Farooq discusses...
Curiosity Pays
It was his curiosity to understand the complex nature of human body that made this Kashmiri boy to come up with a research which...
Abuse of Antibiotics?
A Biotechnology Scholar, Zeenat Farooq, cautions about the use of Antibiotics and writes that mass awareness is need of the hour for both the...
Dream On
Rejected by the ‘perfect world’ these kids have carved a perfect world of their own at Zaiba Appa. Saima Rashid spends one quiet afternoon...
Healing Hands
Pained by the rejection that specially-abled face in the society, a few noble souls joined together to start Shafaqat. To help them face the...
Technology Hurts!
Is IT revolution a bane or boon for mankind is a never ending debate. But with large number of youngsters finding solace in the...
“There is substantial number of lymphoma/leukemia patients in the valley”
Javeed Iqbal - Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, Nebraska, USA -...
Gen(e)ocide
For strife-ridden Kashmir, surviving on stress, chicken and mutton and staying limited to hearths and homes, has emerged just a way of life. Slowly...
Combating Cancer
A US-based Kashmiri neuroscientist is lauded for his path-breaking discovery against cancer world over. He tells Shakir Mir that a cancer-free Kashmir is his...
