The Depression Divide
Depression and other psychiatric issues are health crises that impact families and relations more seriously unlike all other diseases, reports Humaira Nabi
In a room adorned...
Soaring Animal Bites
With the ever-increasing dog population threatening the people within and outside the city, domestic cats are gradually emerging as another key player. Syed Shadab Ali...
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...
Silent Scars
Too many teenagers, mostly girls, resort to self-harm in extreme situations to manage their anger, pain, anguish and bad memories. Babra Wani interacts with...
Chasing Tuberculosis
TB prevalence is steadily declining in Kashmir but it still continues to be the most challenging asymptomatic crisis that people face. In almost 30...
Generic Medicine Market
With government focus on cheap medicines and doctors apparently supporting branded preparations, an ‘unwell’Kashmir, an otherwise huge pharmaceutical market, is gradually making generic medicines...
‘Obesity Is One of The Burning Issues In Today’s World
Born in Kashmir, young post-doctoral scientist, Dr Jameel Lone flew to South Korea for his PhD and is currently busy in his postdoc in...
Kashmir’s Metabolic Syndrome
With culture, situation, market and modernity making people less mobile physically, Kashmir is gradually emerging as the new capital of chronic metabolic syndrome. Women...
Fear of Missing Out
With the internet accessible like water and social media sucking the new generation into it, various abnormalities are emerging in the new generation. Aiman...
Returning the Debt
Within less than seven decades after the British Christian Missionaries introduced the modern allopathic system of medicine to Kashmir, a Srinagar-based doctor, Dr Ghulam...
Dementia Capital
With Jammu and Kashmir recording the highest prevalence of dementia across India, the researchers are desperate to find answers to a trend that many...
Kashmir’s Bone Setters
Till orthopaedics graduated as a key biological science, Kashmir, like many other societies, would get its bone corrections from the bone setters. Nidah Mehraj...
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...
March Maniacs
A chain of violent incidents within families and relationships dominated the first half of March. These crimes may have something to do with disturbed...
‘Some Haakh Varieties Have High Anticancer Potential against Prostate and Lung Cancer Cells’
A junior scientist at SKUAST-K, Dr Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is an award-winning biotechnologist who has been working on cancer biology. Founder of Kashmir’s first...
