1Educational Development Centre, Meshed University of Medical Sciences, Meshad, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Social Medicine, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received 29/11/01; accepted 21/07/02 ABSTRACT A cohort study was conducted in the Islamic Republic of Iran between January 1997 and February 1998 to compare the growth and morb...

1. Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2. Tropical Disease Center, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 3. Dept. of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 4. Dept. of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 5. Dept. of Statistics, ...

Eighty percent of the population in the developing world relies on traditional medicine, and 70-80% of the population in developed countries utilized complementary therapies. Though a vibrant healing tradition pervades modern life in the Arab and Muslim world, no clear definition or model exists to organize it's multiple and intertwined elements . We define Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medici...

In the ophthalmological treatises of the medieval Arabo-Islamic physicians such as al-Mawsili (9th-10th century), al-Kahhal (ca. 940-1010), Haly Abbas (10th century) and al Sadili (14th century) we may find references about ocular cancer, focusing on eyelid tumors and cancerous ulcers of the cornea. These references are similar to the analogous ones of ancient Greek physicians as these are pres...

The foundations of ethical principles in the Eastern Mediterranean Region can be found within the 3 major religions of the Region; Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Today, there are numerous ethical issues that have emerged as result of the technological advances of the 20th century and this paper addresses some of those related to biomedical research. The Islamic principles in relation to medic...

1 Nursing Department, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Aliabad Katoul, IR Iran 2 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3 Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4 Nursing Department, Islamic Azad University, Iransh...

studying the prominent iranian-islamic scientific texts of middle ages in the field of ophthalmology may play a role in recognizing the science of traditional ophthalmology and its crucial diagnostic and therapeutic points. the most important and reliable resources in the context of ophthalmology belong to iranian scientists. this study collects these references and provides their relative equi...

1. Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway 2. Dept. of Modern Sciences and Technologies, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3. Division of Applied Medicine, Medical School, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK 4. Dept. of Biology, Un...

Muslim physicians and Islamic jurists analyze the moral dimensions of biomedicine using different tools and processes. While the deliberations of these two classes of experts involve judgments about the deliverables of the other’s respective fields, Islamic jurists and Muslim physicians rarely engage in discussions about the constructs and epistemic frameworks that motivate their analyses. The ...

knowledge of surgery is one of the milestones in islamic civilization. the purpose of this study was to find principles and proven techniques used by muslim surgeons, third to twelfth century ah. the present study, enjoying a historical approach, used a descriptive analysis method with matching samples. the findings of the study revealed that, during this period, some of the principles and tech...