‘We Have Found Three Inhibitors That Reduce Pain During Cancer’
Dr Muzaffar A Macha has been a ‘golden boy’ throughout. At AIIMS and abroad and now home as head of IUST’s Watson-Crick Centre for...
Making Cancer Fight Cancer
After a series of failures in various laboratories across the globe, Dr Khalid Shah, a young Kashmir scientist, currently, a professor at the Harvard...
Golden Card’s Silver Lining
With almost 90 per cent of Jammu and Kashmir's population covered under cashless health insurance, the Ayushman Bharat scheme and almost Rs 1000 crore...
A Generation In Crisis
A kick to look for the thrill, feel good and forget troubles, a disproportionate number of youth are in substance abuse. Often started in...
‘60 Ladakh Spring Bacteria Produce Antibiotics against Different Diseases’
Awarded for his research in microbiology last week, CSIR-IIIM Principle Scientist, Dr Zahoor Ahmad Parray has been primarily working on the drugs involving Tuberculosis....
‘In the Next 10 Years, Genetic Engineering Will Revolutionise Medical Science’
Intervention cardiologist at the Temple University School of Medicine, Srinagar-born Prof Riyaz Bashir has devised a special series of life-saving, clot-removing catheters, some of...
Herbs and Health
Not a very long ago in Kashmir, most of the diseases were being treated by flood supplements in which fruits, herbs and vegetables were...
‘I Wanted These Children to Have the Childhood That Was Denied to Me’
As the Kashmir situation deteriorated in the 1990s, Noor ul Owase Jeelani was flown out to London by his parents. He studied medicine and...
No Dismal Performance
Even though the students from Jammu and Kashmir under-performed numerically in comparison to the national average but the sheer number and the merit indicate...
Kashmir’s Fertility Fall
From 3.1 children per woman in 1991 to 1.4 in 2021, Kashmir is confronted with an above-average fall in the fertility rate. Fazil Buchh...
Reading Cardiologist’s Heart
Kashmir’s leading cardiologist, Dr U Kaul’s book offers interesting anecdotes about the evolution of better heart care and various heart-breaking events, writes Khalid Bashir...
Moorcroft’s Kashmir Days
East India Company’s veterinarian and stud manager, William Moorcroft is the most referred author about early nineteenth century Kashmir. While living in Srinagar between...
‘I Studied at A Jabri School Where We Had Good Teachers’
Former Director SKIMS, Dr M Sultan Khuroo is just not a successful gastroenterologist only. During the last four decades, he discovered Hepatitis-E in Kashmir,...
Taming Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) has seven global strains and some of them are defying the most modern therapies that science has evolved. Still one of the...
‘Leishmaniasis Is A Poor Man’s Disease So Big Co’s Merck or Pfizer Don’t Touch...
Kashmir scientist, Dr Hira Lal Nakhasi, currently a Director at US’s FDA, has worked to solve many riddles but his key contribution has been...
