Postmortem examinations have recently become common practice in Western medicine: they are used to verify the cause of death and to obtain additional scientific information on certain diseases, as well as to train medical students. For religious people of the monotheistic faiths postmortems present several ethical questions even though the advantages attributed to postmortems in the West are al...

Venereal diseases are still a common prohlem in today's world. Even though tremendous advances are heing made in medicine and large budgets are heing spent to control sexually transmitted diseases (STD), especially in western countries, these diseases are still yet very common, and today AIDS has been added to the threats posed hy STD to human life. The status of syphilis was evaluated in Iran ...

This article is about the recognition of personhood when death occurs in early life. Drawing from anthropological perspectives on personhood at the beginnings and ends of life, it examines the implications of competing religious and customary definitions of personhood for a small sample of young British Pakistani Muslim women who experienced miscarriage and stillbirth. It suggests that these wo...

1Department of Internal Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Endocrine and Metabolism Research Centre, Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 11/04/02; accepted: 02/02/03 ABSTRACT To assess the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with hyperhomocysteinaemia (hyper-Hcy) and hyperlipidaemia, we performed a case–contr...

when cultures collide, through its major activities that emanate from the translation, they can flourish themselves. intimacy and familiarity of the islamic world with greek medical heritage which happened to be in the golden age of the abbasids in baghdad, led to the enrichment and prosperity of islamic medicine. this sort of familiarity and reproductivity grew among nestorian christians throu...

a r t i c l e i n f o The Dow Jones Islamic Market indices (DJIMI) are constructed by screening out stocks that are incompatible with Islam's prohibition of interest and certain lines of business. However, as a blunt instrument, the interest rate can affect discounted cash flows of any firm, even a firm with no financial leverage. This study reveals that the aggregate portfolio of Islamic stock...

Complementary medicine is a formal method of health care in most countries of the ancient world. It is expected to become more widely integrated into the modern medical system, including the medical curriculum. Despite the perception of modern medicine as more efficacious, traditional medicine continues to be practiced. More than 70% of the developing world's population still depends primarily ...

Patricia Ohana, Ofer Gofrit, Suhail Ayesh, Wasif Al-Sharef, Aya Mizrahi, Tatiana Birman, Tamar Schneider, Imad Matouk, Nathan de Groot, Eli Tavdy, A. Ami Sidi, and Abraham Hochberg Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Department of Urology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel Department of Urologic Surg...

Hassan Ahmadvand*, Akram Noori, Maryam Ghasemi Dehnoo, Shahrokh Bagheri, Rooh Angiz Cheraghi Razi Herbal Researches Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khoram Abad, Iran Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khoram Abad, Iran Department of Biochemistry, Payame Noor University, Mashhad branch, Iran Department of Biology, Science an...

Samira Sheibani Nia, Parisa Azadfar, Leila Akbari, Farhad Assarzadegan1, Behnam Kamalidehghan2, Hamid Reza Maroof3, Massoud Houshmand3,4 Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, 1Department of Neurology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti, University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 2Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, K...