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Health

This section is a detailed listing of the various facets of staying healthy in Jammu and Kashmir. It has copies about the diseases, research, practitioners, the infrastructure and the economics of it. Exceptional individuals and institutions are profiled also.

“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...

An Addict’s Story

He started smoking for fun but once he landed in a college in Delhi things turned ugly. With drugs like cocaine and cannabis easily...

Exiled In Past

The banks of Srinagar’s Nigeen Lake are host to Kashmir’s three generations of leprosy patients. They live, grow, marry and die inside the four...

Forgotten Hakeems

Nestled in old lanes of Srinagar, Hakeems are struggling to survive in face of modernity. Syed Asma talks to some of the surviving practitioners...

Healthy Beginning

It was a childhood dream that made this south Kashmir boy pursue medicine and then start a hospital of his own. Suhail A Shah...

Critically Missing

With Kashmir’s highways sans emergency services one has to travel around 70 kilometres to avail critical care in case of an accident. Suhail A...

Cashmere’s Carcinogens

Two latest medical pieces of research have held the prevalence of smoking and salted tea as the main factors for the increased prevalence of...

Dial For Health

Next time you wish to see a doctor in Srinagar just dial EAO’s free helpline and it will be done. Started with an aim...

Between Death

With government busy in trading rhetoric a village in South Kashmir is forced to choose between death and slow death. Suhail A Shah reports...

Canine Casualties

Despite official claim of reducing dog population to half in just two years canines are on the loose and stronger than ever. Syed Asma...

Knowing H1N1

As H1N1 is emerging as the new cause of concern in Kashmir, Dr Rabbanie Tariq Wani offers a quick guide to the causes and...

An Itchy Discount

Post flood, sales in Srinagar and elsewhere saw huge turnout of shoppers looking for cheap bargains. But using flood-affected items ended up people queuing...

No Pain, Please!

In order to bypass labor pain and get quick results, a number of mothers voluntarily opt to go under the knife. But not always...