All elements from Kashmir
Renowned neurologist Dr Shusheel Razdan receives a lot of patients from Kashmir - a place where was born, brought up, married and loved. He...
High Way To Destruction
Kashmir is losing a generation to drugs, with medicinal opiates being the most abused substances to get a high. Social stigmatisation is keeping many...
Contagious but curable
Tuberculosis is contagious disease which can affect anyone and takes months to heal. The disease afflicting millions throughout the world can be tackled with...
Fighting disease with technology
Khyber Medical institute has introduced some latest cardiac procedures in Kashmir, where experts say 12 percent of the population above 30 may be suffering...
Awareness saves
Renowned cardiologist, Dr. Upendra Kaul, is the Executive Director of Fortis group of hospitals and Director of Cardiology, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. Besides being...
Quitting Ain’t So Hard
Cigarettes have killed more people than even the most lethal weapons ever created. The habit is nasty and addictive but can be given up...
Breeding An Epidemic
The hospitals in a Kashmir are ill-equipped to handle the waste, especially bio-medical and radioactive, putting lives and the environment at risk. Ikhlaq Qadri...
Outbreak
An outbreak of gastroenteritis with cholera like symptoms claimed eight lives, with more than six thousand people needing hospitalisation across five districts of the state. Haroon Mirani reports.
Practicing tradition
In the times when allopathy is the most preferred system of medicine in Kashmir, there are many who still practice traditional medicine. Aliya Bashir...
Heart Break
After years of suspense, Kashmir has lost its chance to have a super speciality cardiac centre headed by internationally renowned top cardiologist Dr Fayaz...
Polluting Lives
With the increase in the use of drugs among valley youth, many addicts are trying different substances. Sharing of syringes by addicts leads to...
Eating Right
DR SEEMIN RUBAB
In the present market driven economy our eating habits have changed drastically. Instead of natural healthy diet a shift towards processed unhealthy...
Where are Juvenile homes
Shazia Yousuf
With her head resting in her grandmother’s lap, nine-year-old Iqra makes unsuccessful attempts to sleep. She is in trauma and her body burns...
Financing Healthcare: Some Innovative Options
On the 27th Annual Day of SKIMS (December 5, 2009), economist, and banker Dr Haseeb A Drabu delivered the Sher-i-Kashmir Oration suggesting a business...
Mysterious Rajouri fever spreading
While the Swine Flu threat, that grabbed a lot of media attention, seems to be under control in the J&K, the state is oblivious...
