How My Family Fought Covid-19 Infection And Recovered?
by Muazzam Khursheed
Throughout my experience of battling with the virus, what I could comprehend is that other than medication, the mental health of the...
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...
The SKIMS Story
In the 40 years of its existence, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), a deemed university, has emerged as a key research and...
Gen(e)ocide
For strife-ridden Kashmir, surviving on stress, chicken and mutton and staying limited to hearths and homes, has emerged just a way of life. Slowly...
Kashmir’s Fertility Fall
From 3.1 children per woman in 1991 to 1.4 in 2021, Kashmir is confronted with an above-average fall in the fertility rate. Fazil Buchh...
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...
Technology Addiction
Parents are frequently talking about their kids using smart phones and other communication gadgets for ‘time-pass’. It is gradually leading to addiction and to...
Trekking For 2G
Not far away from the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector, students climb to a hilltop to catch the low-speed mobile signal to...
Kashmir’s Insomniacs
Mental morbidity is a rampant issue in Kashmir. Off late, individuals requiring medications for a night of better sleep are gradually increasing and it...
Yatra. Really?
Amarnath pilgrimage could undo the painstaking efforts to control the virus in Kashmir, writes Riyaz Wani
With the annual Amarnath yatra drawing near, the Jammu...
Taming Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) has seven global strains and some of them are defying the most modern therapies that science has evolved. Still one of the...
The Plasma Plan
In the absence of any treatment, the doctors in Kashmir are now using Convalescent Plasma Therapy to treat a certain section of Covid-19 patients...
Nutrition in Cancer
Minors fighting life-threatening diseases like cancer need special diets, writes Zeenat Farooq
Children need proper nutrition because they are at a growing age and their...
Dirty Nexus
The alleged involvement of a top Congress leader in the supply of spurious drugs to government hospitals not only speaks of the failing standards...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
