Sopore of My Childhood
While offering the first-hand account of his birth and upbringing in Sopore, the ninth-century town, scientist and clinician, Dr M Sultan Khuroo details the...
Legendary Ali Jan
One of Kashmir’s top gastroenterologists and researchers who once headed the SKIMS, Dr M Sultan Khuroo explains why Dr Ali M Jan was a...
J&K: The NHFS5 Results
The National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS5) based on the interviews of 3087 men and 23037 women from 18318 households offers key statistics about major...
New Motherhood
Kashmir is witnessing almost half of the new births having a surgical intervention, a new trend that defies logic and tradition besides exhibiting complete...
A Pet Market
In tense Kashmir’s new melancholy, pet raring has emerged as a new therapy and it has started triggering a niche business in an otherwise...
A Ticking Bomb
Not every sudden death could be attributed to heart failure as drug overdose deaths are taking place silently and at an alarming pace. Khalid...
Virtual Costs
As Covid19 pushed the world towards the tiny phone screens, it has started severely impacting the new generation. Zakia Qurashi talks to experts to...
Here’s How a Health Insurance Calculator Can Help You Plan Better
Just getting health insurance isn’t enough, you also need to ensure that you have an adequate cover so that in case someone from your...
Omicron Fears
In anticipation of a possible surge triggered by Covid19’s Omicron variant, Minhaj Masoodi evaluates the state and status of the infection management in Kashmir...
The Kangri Cancer
Not in so distant past, most of Kashmir lacked resources to even have adequate garments in winters. Kangri, the fire pot was the only...
Kashmir’s Plague Story
Plague like many other epidemics got imported into Kashmir. A Mitra, Kashmir’s erstwhile Chief Medical Officer of Kashmir treated the plague-infected and tackled the...
Disquiet In Medical Schools
With authorities opening a section of graduate and half of the postgraduate medical education berths to an All India Quota, most of the medical...
Wrecked Families
Behind the desperation at the official and societal level for halting the spread of Covid19 and deny any space to the third wave, are...
Challenging Jobs
Scanning human bodies for abnormal growth in various organs and subsequently treating them with radioactive substances is a job that pushes medical professionals to...
Offering Blood
Shocked by the death of an infant for not getting blood donation in time, a school teacher created an informal network of blood donors...
