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...
An Illustrious Life
It was his love for surgery that took Dr Peerzada Abdul Rashid to London. But his heart beat for his people back home. After...
Unpopular Poplars
With experts issuing sustained warnings over the health hazards created by Russian Poplars or Rusi Frass in summers, there seems to be no end...
“I had tightened the noose around some people in the health department who are...
Caught in the controversy surrounding the purchase of spurious drugs supplied to various government hospitals in the state and blamed by his Congress colleague...
Formalizing Business
In wake of the crisis over the quality of medicines that government purchases for its hospitals in Kashmir, Omar Abdullah government revived Congress’s plan...
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...
Hemophilia: An Un-royal Treatment
With the lack of medicines and a crippling infrastructure ailing the healthcare at government-run hospitals in Kashmir valley, the patients of the ‘Royal Disease’...
Sickness in Society
When the story of ‘Razor Man’ grabbed headlines some years back, the media was quick to project him as an outlaw on the run....
Setting a Trend
From a depressed women looking for a job to an entrepreneur who employs four people at her fitness centre, Dr Qurat has come a...
