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...
Refer to Srinagar
Tertiary health care services in Srinagar are crumbling under the rural rush, as district hospitals are skipping their responsibilities and referring patients to Srinagar...
Healthy Trend
A state of the art 100 bedded private hospital coming up in Srinagar is expected to bring some relief to the ailing over burdened...
A long, long drive to hospital
A year after Kashmir saw harshest curfews post 1990’s, Majid Maqbool recounts a compelling journey through the curfewed streets of Srinagar.  My phone rings,...
Baby Boom…
Every month two test tube babies are conceived in Kashmir after infertile couples undergo in-vitro fertility (IVF) treatment at Rotunda Hygeia, state’s first and...
Innocence trampled
A child killed by a father, a minor raped by a neighbour. More and more cases of child abuse are reported from different corners of the valley. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Struggle against forgetfulness
In 2008, Kashmir made a transition from violence to non-violence. But the state responded with the same iron fist – volleys of bullets met...
Lal Ded’s Shame
As the world celebrates Mother’s Day, Shazia Yousuf and Shazia Khan visit Srinagar’s biggest maternity hospital, Lal Ded, to find the treatment met to...
Sucking the disease out
An age-old method of cure by sucking impure blood, leech therapy has now entered medical textbooks. Hospitals in Kashmir too use this method for...
Kashmir: HIV Enters Schools
The growing incidence of HIV infection in J&K has been an open secret for some time, but now the monster has extended its reach...
No taboo this
Changing perceptions improve the life of leprosy patients in Kashmir but they want their normal children liberated from their shacks. Shazia Yousuf spends a...
