Cancer’s New Antidote
An Indian biotech start-up has secured a global first: a patented, third-generation CAR-T therapy that targets cancer with unprecedented precision—offering new hope for affordable,...
Kashmir: Smoking Fuels Cancer Surge
Lung cancer remains one of the most overlooked health crises in Kashmir. While globally half of the smokers get the lethal disease, a growing...
Kashmir’s Mindscape: Trauma and Healing
Kashmir’s psychological landscape, shaped by faith and conflict, has evolved through psychiatry. Dr Mushtaq Margoob tells Azra Hussain how the region’s shift from stigma...
Kashmir’s Infertility Epidemic
With economic well-being overtaking the basic family institution, Kashmir tops the list of places where late marriages are the new norm. Coupled with tensions...
Rajouri’s Mystery Deaths
Starting from a wedding, 17 members from three families in Budhal were lost in the last 40 days. Scientists have ruled out bacterial, viral,...
Kashmir’s Cervical Cancer Challenge
In Kashmir, where different cancers are exhibiting an upward trend, cervical cancers are insignificantly low given the conservative nature of life and culture, reports...
Kashmir: A Caesarean Surge
With late marriages taking place at the peak of PCOD and metabolic syndrome, misinformed Kashmir mothers have grown too intolerant to labour pains as...
Air Pollution can Harm Cognitive Wellbeing, Affect Emotional Resilience, Say Docs
NEW DELHI: Amid worsening air quality in the national capital, doctors here said its effect was not only limited to physical health but also...
Al-Balkhi: Psychology’s Forgotten Founder
Textbooks teach students the evolution of modern psychology in the seventeenth century starting from Sigismund Schlomo Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, ignoring the larger...
Changes to Gut Composition Linked with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Study Suggests
SRINAGAR: Changes in gut microbes could be related with an onset of rheumatoid arthritis, eventually translating into symptoms that can be diagnosed, according to...
Doctors Struggle to Treat Long Covid Patients in India, Researchers Point to Inadequate Studies
NEW DELHI: Doctors in India are grappling to diagnose and treat unexplained and persistent symptoms of long Covid patients due to limited guidelines, whereas...
Poor Sleep in Early Middle Age Related With Accelerated Brain Ageing, Reveals Study
NEW DELHI: Brain scans have revealed higher levels of shrinkage -- a sign of brain ageing -- among people having poor sleep quality in early...
Busted: Five Myths About Eco-Friendly Eating
SINGAPORE: "Organic beef", "GMO-free" and "100 per cent natural" are just some of the countless claims designed to attract the eyes of eco-conscious consumers...
SC Dismisses PIL Alleging Side-Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea alleging side-effects such as blood clotting due to the administration of COVID-19 vaccines.
A bench...
Study Shows Extreme Rainfall Can Raise Risk of Death Due to Adverse Health Effects
NEW DELHI: Risk of death was found to rise in the wake of an extreme rainfall event, including death due to heart and lung...
