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Prof Upendra Kaul

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From Delhi to Srinagar: Then and Now

26.07.2025 1

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The Sacred Cave

02.07.2025 10

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Timeless Ties

24.06.2025 3

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Summer Health Alerts

27.05.2025 7

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Measure Your BP Correctly, Keep it Normal and Live Longer

20.05.2025 4

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Combating Obesity

13.05.2025 10

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Four days that shook the sub continent

11.05.2025 10

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Desolation around Dal Lake

08.05.2025 10

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Finding Peace after Terror

03.05.2025 10

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Clinical Research in Jammu and Kashmir

22.04.2025 10

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From Telemedicine to Heart Clinic on Wheels

09.04.2025 10

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Kashmiri Hindu Calendar

28.03.2025 5

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Spring’s Sweet Awakening

18.03.2025 4

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How to Prevent Kidney Disease in Patients with Heart Disease?

12.03.2025 8

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Date Palm: The Ancient Gift

11.03.2025 10

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Obesity: A National Problem

03.03.2025 5

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A Nostalgic Journey

25.02.2025 10

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The Fading Craft

20.02.2025 5

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The Sacred Walnut

12.02.2025 7

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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

06.02.2025 8

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Common Myths Regarding Heart Failure

30.01.2025 8

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The golden fleece of Ladakh

27.01.2025 9

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Harisa: Good Morning Kashmir

20.01.2025 3

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The forgotten People

11.01.2025 5

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Link between Thyroid Dysfunction and Heart Disease

The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped small gland in the front of the neck, just below the Adam’s apple and is less than 20 grams in weight. It is...

07.01.2025 4

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Enjoy your coffee

Coffee as a beverage in Kashmir is a relatively recent entrant and the land of “Noon Chay” and “Kahwa” is steadily getting into a coffee age....

06.01.2025 3

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Snow filled Bliss

My return to Delhi from Srinagar after my weekend visits is usually a somber feeling. It was for a change that I was looking forward to go back to...

28.12.2024 3

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How to raise the HDL Bar

We often refer to high cholesterol levels to be bad for health especially the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) component.  High density...

24.12.2024 6

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The Iconic Attire of Kashmir

It is winter time and time to utilise our Pherans. The word Pheran or Phiran seems to have come from Persian language, where Pairaahan means a long...

20.12.2024 5

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Kashmir’s Forgotten Lore

Our Kashmir valley as per geological facts was a huge waterbody around 4.5 million years ago. This lake was formed as a result of tectonic activity...

18.12.2024 7

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Blood Thinners: Safety Tips and Precautions

Blood Thinners are important group of drugs required by many patients with heart related illnesses, which includes patients suffering from acute or...

12.12.2024 4

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Winter Warnings: Protect Your Heart During the Chill

Winter is almost here and with the health hazards associated with it. These are seen more often in the vulnerable populations like in extremes of...

28.11.2024 4

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High Blood Pressure in Women

There is a common myth that high Blood pressure is less prevalent and less dangerous for health in women. While this may be true before the...

19.11.2024 3

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Heart Involvement in Diabetes

Maturity onset Diabetes also called Type II diabetes is a common medical problem seen with an estimated prevalence of 11.4% as per the recent ICMR-...

13.11.2024 4

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Historical, Scientific and Medicinal Facts

Tea or Chai is one of the cheapest beverages humans consume. Its consumption as a beverage has been considered a health promoting habit since time...

08.11.2024 4

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The Golden Season

This wonderful season in many languages including in Greek and of course English is synonymous with the harvest season. Later as populations...

03.11.2024 10

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Surviving Stroke – A Guide for Prevention and Treatment

Brain stroke or brain attack, is a devastating problem which results from damage to the brain from interruption of blood supply leading to...

28.10.2024 3

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A tumultuous journey of 15 centuries

Srinagar of today, with its outskirts, has had a very interesting history and a tumultuous past. It  has been the capital city of Kashmir since the...

24.10.2024 10

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Atrial Fibrillation (AF): The Commonest Serious Palpitation

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common irregularity of the heartbeat, affecting at least 35 million people worldwide according to the latest...

09.10.2024 70

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Can Jammu prove decisive?

As a school going boy, visiting to Kashmir in summer vacations during the 1980s was a very important annual event for me. It used to be a journey...

01.10.2024 4

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Use the Heart for Action

It has long been realised that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the top most killer of the humanity and it continues to be so. World Heart Day is a...

29.09.2024 5

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The complex arithmetic of seats and votes

The long-awaited elections of the Union Territory of J&K have actually come on the orders of the Supreme Court of India in their verdict of 11th...

24.09.2024 9

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What all you need to know?

Heart Failure (HF) occurs when the heart muscle doesn’t pump blood as well as it should and this leads to less blood supply to the important organs...

18.09.2024 3

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Wait and watch!

Sheikh Abdul Rashid, a well-known person from Langate, in Kupwara district of North Kashmir, has been a person frequently shrouded with...

05.09.2024 6

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Is the playing field level?

Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) represents a unique part of India as far as the distribution of people across faihts is concerned. The distribution of the...

27.08.2024 5

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Revisiting a thing long forgotten

During my visits to Srinagar in the school days, I frequently used to stay with my aunt (Bengashi) who used to live in Kani Kadal on the bank of an...

22.08.2024 8

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Diabetes and Heart Disease: A Common Association

Maturity onset Diabetes also called Type II diabetes is a common medical problem seen with an estimated prevalence of 11.4% as per the recent ICMR-...

21.08.2024 3

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Obesity- Our Burning Public Health Issue

A recent study published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet has revealed that 44 million women and 26 million men aged more than 20 years...

07.08.2024 3

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Common myths about high blood pressure

Silent Killer Measurement of blood pressure is quick and painless. Written as two numbers, the first (systolic) number represents pressure in blood...

31.07.2024 10

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The story of Pir Ki Gali

It had been a long-cherished desire of mine to visit Pir Ki Gali, the Pir Panjal Pass on one of these days from our Hawal village’s Prasad Khan...

26.07.2024 40

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