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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.

The Virus Hunter

At the forefront of the detection and control of the viral outbreaks within and outside the USA in the last more than 20 years...

Blood and Virus

After the mourners violated the social distancing norms in Sopore, security grid has silently started official burial of the slain militants in Kashmir to...

No Empathy For Injured

by Masood Hussain “After I regained consciousness many hours after the operation was over, I was told that the police officer let the ambulance go...

Virtual Trade

With the Covid-19 pandemic dictating a new regime, most of the activities of life are getting into virtual mode. Owing to the communication blockade,...

Smart Strategy Required?

The second wave of Covid-19 and its impact on the Kashmir economy can be managed by peoples’ participation and smart strategy writes Syed Suhail...

Beware of Synthetic Milk

DR ZUBAIR AHMAD WAR Srinagar: Milk is the physiological secretion produced by the mammalian animals.  Mammals have specialised organs called mammary glands to produce milk...

Tourists Return?

After 18 months of hiatus, the tourist footfalls have started surging in Kashmir. Insiders in the hospitality sector believe that if Gulmarg crowds are...

Devastating Coverage

It is unlikely that there will be a leadership challenge to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi but his political capital will not escape unscathed...

OBE Is The Alternative

by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days affair in a year. These...

Near Death Experience

by Tariq A Rather It started with swelling in my left leg calf muscle area around first week of September, 2016. I showed it to my...

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...

Mental health’s physical challenge

by Maroosha Muzzaffar  The lone mental health care hospital in Kashmir lacks a rehabilitation centre, a facility psychiatrists insist is essential for chronic patients. This is...

Being Covid-19 Positive

Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat On March 16,...

Covid Champions

Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...

“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 -...