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Health

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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Every third kid in kashmir is overweight: WHO study

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Obesity is prevalent in epidemic proportions world over, J&K included, spiraling the way for diabetes, cardiovascular and other diseases, as per a joint study by World Health Organization (WHO) and Imperial College London published this week in Lancet. Obesity in children is a serious concern. Last Tuesday, Lancet published the largest ever study on obesity ahead of World Obesity day (11 October). The study has revealed that in India, the number of obese children has increased ten-fold since 1975. Two doctors from J&K, Dr Abdul Hameed Zargar and Dr Shariq…

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As conflict continues, mental health cases on rise across Kashmir

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70,000 treated by neurosciences institute this year Psychiatric disorders have become a lifestyle ailment in Kashmir due to the unending conflict as the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS) has treated at least 70,000 people with mental health illnesses this year. Official data reveals that of the 70,000 patients, 2,692 drug addicts were treated till August while 387 drug addicts were admitted to the institute and its centre at the SMHS Hospital here. “The number is quite high for the past nine months as compared to last year when…

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Meat intake can increases diabetes risk: Study

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Eating too much red meat and poultry may increase risk of developing diabetes, a large Asian study suggests. The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, partially attributes the risk to the higher content of heme iron in these meats. The results suggest that eating fish/shellfish is not associated with risk of diabetes. These findings come from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, which recruited 63,257 adults aged 45-74 years between 1993 and 1998, and then followed them up for an average of about 11 years. In their analysis, Professor…

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