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...
‘Failure In Detecting Early Is The Reason Behind High Mortality Rates In Cancer’.
After spending a lot of time trying to locate the particular molecules that play a role in diverse cancers, Dr Zahida Qamri changed her career path...
‘Our Gut Is Our Second Brain’
Kashmir neuroscientist, Dr Zahoor Shah, currently teaching at the University of Toledo, Ohio, is investigating the Gut-Brain axis in understanding various brain disorders, including...
Kashmir’s Hikmat and Hakeem
Till the early twentieth century, the entire healthcare system was run by the Unani system of medicine with Hakeem’s at the apex of the...
