A Sinking SKIMS?
Within less than 50 years of its operations, SKIMS – the tertiary care teaching hospital and a deemed university that sits over the healthcare...
Mysterious Minds
They are enveloped in obscurity - some enjoying isolation and others enjoying a sense of being in power. Saima Bhat explores the world of...
Fields of Addiction
A string of villages near Bijbehara rely primarily on fields of illegal crops for sustaining themselves. SHAMS IRFAN walks through one of these villages,...
‘Our Gut Is Our Second Brain’
Kashmir neuroscientist, Dr Zahoor Shah, currently teaching at the University of Toledo, Ohio, is investigating the Gut-Brain axis in understanding various brain disorders, including...
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...
Helping Hands
A part of the pellet crisis was managed by doctors who flew from outside Kashmir. But there are many cases where victims were taken...
The Radiation Costs
Overexposure to radiation is a severe health crisis. Humaira Nabi meets a female X-ray technician, who said she suffered immensely during the Covid19 overload
When...
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...
Gasping For Breath
In the absence of treatment, the basic requirement for managing the Covid-19 cases is oxygen. As the existing infrastructure in the health sector is...
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...
Understanding The Virus
With an estimated 100 million types and so abundant that all the life forms put together, the viruses were discovered only after the invention...
Honey in fasting
By Zeenat Farooq
Honey is a sugary liquid of high consistency and stickiness that is produced by honey bees from the nectar of flowers by...
How The Pandemic Is Impacting The Nurses Psychologically?
by Joziea Farooq
‘Absorbing grief in Nursing is nothing new, but the degree to which it’s occurring now is staggering.’
The nursing profession is a stressful one...
Hypothyroidism: ‘A Cause of Concern in Kashmir’s Young Female Lot’
By Zeenat Farooq
Hypothyroidism, also called as underactive thyroid describes an endocrine disorder in which the thyroid gland which lies in throat remains underactive, and...
Shielding Doctors
As the virus jammed Wuhan in China and triggered a global appetite for personal protection equipment (PPE), a young innovator in Srinagar decided to...
