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Health

Youngsters in Kashmir more prone to diabetes: Dr Ashraf Ganie

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Sedentary lifestyle, stress, high calorie diet among major causes  Noted endocrinologist, Dr Muhammad Ashraf Ganie, who is President of MPPCOS Society and Senior Consultant Endocrinology and Metabolism, AIIMS, New Delhi is currently working as senior Professor at Department of Endocrinology, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar. Dr Ganie has been working in the area of lifestyle disorders and has published numerous research papers. In a candid interview Dr Ganie talks about present scenario of diabetes, its causes, measures, trends, sex-wise ratio and precautionary measures to tackle diabetes in Kashmir…

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Five types of menstrual disorders

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Women can have various problems with periods / menstruation them. The problem may be not menstruate at all to severe and prolonged menstruation. Menstrual pattern may be irregular, but if the distance between menstruation less than 21 days or more than 3 months, or if your period lasts more than 10 days then you should be aware of the existence of ovulation problems or other medical conditions. 1. Amenorrhea Amenorrhea is no menstruation. This term is used for women who have not started menstruating after the age of 15 years…

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H1N1 influenza death toll 5 as another patient dies at SKIMS

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A 40-year-old woman has died of H1N1 influenza at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences here, making her the fifth victim of the deadly infection this season, even as five more patients are presently being treated at the tertiary-care hospital. The woman, admitted to SKIMS with respiratory distress, was suffering from H1N1 influenza, a doctor said, quoting the patient’s investigation reports. He said that the woman, a resident of Budgam and an employee with the technical education department suffered acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis. “She had been put on antiviral…

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All eyes on Govt for easing school bag burden of students

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The new academic session in schools is starting from third week of November, however the government is yet to issue guidelines to educational institutions, particularly private schools, for reducing weight of school bags. In the last week of August this year, government had constituted a four-member committee to suggest measures to help reduce weight of schoolbags of children. The committee was headed by chairperson Board of School Education (BOSE) Veena Pandita while other members of the committee were former head of department Sociology, University of Kashmir, A G Madhosh, and…

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Most meat animals are raised with the assistance of doses of antibiotics on most days of their lives

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Every year I spend some time in a tiny apartment in Paris, seven storeys above the mayor’s offices for the 11th arrondissement. The Place de la Bastille – the spot where the French revolution sparked political change that transformed the world – is a 10-minute walk down a narrow street that threads between student nightclubs and Chinese fabric wholesalers. Twice a week, hundreds of Parisians crowd down it, heading to the marché de la Bastille, stretched out along the center island of the Boulevard Richard Lenoir. Blocks before you reach…

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Two more deaths due to Swine Flu at SKIMS

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At least three deaths have taken place in the past 24 hours due to the H1N1 influenza at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences here, with experts signaling spike in the cases amid government’s failure to make the testing and isolation facilities for such patients operational. A source said that a female patient who had tested positive for the H1N1 influenza died at SKIMS on Tuesday morning. The woman, 24, was pregnant. She hailed from peripheries of Srinagar and was supported on a ventilator for two days. “We tried hard to…

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Braid-Chopping affects psyche of children across Kashmir

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The fear of braid chopping has not only petrified women and girls across Kashmir, but has also affected the psyche of children as well. Three-year-old Adeeba Farooq said on Sunday that she has seen three back-to-back incidents of braid chopping in her locality at SD Colony, Batamaloo, here. “And since then, I stay home all the time and fear playing outside,” she told Kashmir Post. Adeeba’s mother Shazia said she has “noticed strange changes” in Adeeba behavior ever since the series of incidents of braid-chopping took place in her neighborhood.…

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Mystery ‘Braid Chopping’ cases add panic to trauma in Kashmir

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A wave of brutal, deadly panic has swept Indian-administered Kashmir after more than 100 women said they were victims of attackers who chopped off their hair. Despite suggestions the cases may have been fabricated or fuelled by hysteria, the consequences have been all too real. One 70-year-old man has been killed by vigilantes since the alleged incidents started a month ago, and there are near-daily reports of groups attacking suspected so-called “braid-choppers”. Authorities have avoided confirming or denying the accounts of women from across the Himalayan region, which bears deep…

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Over 40% population has no proper drinking water supply across J&K

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Over 43 percent of J&K habitations have erratic or no piped water supply, making people living in these areas depend on open sources of water, often contaminated, putting their lives at risk as per Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS). In J&K, only 56.2 percent of habitations are fully covered by a water supply schemes as per 2017 J&K state profile data by Ministry of Water and Sanitation. With 15,958 habitations in J&K, the data shows that more than 7000 habitations, 43.8 of the total, have incomplete coverage by…

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Drugs, Late marriages, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder reasons for rising infertility cases

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The ongoing conflict in Kashmir has not only taken a heavy toll on human lives, but is said to be the major reason for the increasing cases of infertility. Late marriages, drug abuse are also cited as the other reasons. According to medicos working in various hospitals, the numbers of infertility cases have increased at a very high pace. “We register three cases of infertility on daily basis, which means 90 cases in a month and 1,080 cases in a year,” said a doctor at JVC Bemina. Similarly at valley’s…

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