Is Your Medicine Fake?
With one out of five drugs fake in the market, it is the consumers who suffer. Qazi Zaid takes a look at the faulty...
“More than spurious drugs it is spurious injectables that cause instant death”
Fayaz Ahmed Azad, president J&K Chemist and Drug Association, tells Syed Asma that there is no way to check the quality of drugs in...
Dog Scare
With more than 90 thousand dogs in Srinagar city alone the battle for space has left many lives in perils. Faisal Shabir Bhat reports...
Out to Serve
With a huge number of Kashmiris still dependent on hospitals outside valley for specialized treatment, a young entrepreneur tries to fill the gap. Riyaz...
Stay Home
The allotment of four new government medical colleges to Jammu and Kashmir has raised hopes for the aspiring doctors, unable to pay hefty donations....
Surgeon Special
Seven years ago, when Dr Shakeel, a maxillofacial surgeon from Srinagar, started doing cleft surgeries, he was shocked by such high prevalence. Bilal Handoo...
A Silent Agony
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In the last 25 years of conflict psychological trauma and related diseases limited...
Half Steps
As world readies itself to bid goodbye to Polio for good, Safwat Zargar meets Shabir Ahmad Dagloo, who despite his handicap and penury, voluntarily...
Down With Disorder
The trend of late marriages has upset the genetic make-up of Kashmiris as prevalence of Down’s syndrome among new born has risen. Bilal Handoo...
Worm Therapy
Alternate therapies like using leeches to cure frost-bites and other ailments have survived the change and modernity. Bilal Handoo offers glimpses how leech therapy...
Manufacturing Doctors
Every summer, the CET set off a chain of reports about wrongdoings in the process. This year as the High Court sought status of...
Love In Turmoil
Kashmir is not only a huge family planning story but an emerging market for aphrodiacs as well. However, in-between lies the larger reality that...
A Flailing Society
A civilized society is born out of care for the environment, a sense of duty and belongingness to the places we live in. Kashmir’s...
Dangerous Contacts
People of Kashmir are today sharing space with a heavy military apparatus, huge tourist arrivals and lakhs of migrant laborers. How do these ‘mass...
An Ignoble Nexus
It all starts with small gifts like pen and notepad. But it doesn’t stop there. High end gadgets, expensive cars, foreign holidays are new...
