He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Source: New York Times By Spencer Bokat-Lindell This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. For all of modern medicine’s advances, […]
By Andrew Dunn Source: Business Insider The malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have rapidly become top potential coronavirus treatments. But they lack any high-quality clinical evidence that shows they are effective against COVID-19. Dr. David Boulware, a University of Minnesota infectious disease professor, is running two experiments to test hydroxychloroquine in […]
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) — Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder of MuslimGirl.com, has become the first Muslim woman to run for Congress in New Jersey. On Saturday (April 4), Al-Khatahtbeh announced […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: CNN Washington (CNN)The Department of Health […]
Source: BBC The president of the European Union’s ERC scientific research council has resigned after three months in the job with an attack on the EU’s scientific governance and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If my articles are boring to you, it may be that you need to read more of them, […]
Source: DW Following the lead of President Jair Bolsonaro, preachers in Brazil are competing to define the coronavirus. But empty church pews around the country suggest the faithful aren’t buying […]
Our favorite posts: The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic and A Moonshot Moment for the Muslims: Making Covid 19 Vaccine before the West and China Source: Yahoo News By Laura […]
Source: USA Today WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear the Catholic Church’s challenge to a local ban on religious advertising. The case, brought by the Archdiocese of Washington against the […]
Our favorite posts: The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic and A Moonshot Moment for the Muslims: Making Covid 19 Vaccine before the West and China Source: BBC […]
Source: BBC Cardinal George Pell has been freed from jail after Australia’s highest court overturned his conviction for child sexual abuse. The former Vatican treasurer, 78, was the most senior […]
Source: The Guardian By Rowena Mason, Lisa O’Carroll and Dan Sabbagh Overall charge of government handed to Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been admitted to intensive care after his coronavirus […]
Spain has more than 13,000 deaths, second only to Italy with 15000 Source: The Guardian Noted by Ashifa Kassam In Spain, the daily number of deaths has declined for the […]
(CNN) When 30-year-old Ben Luderer started to feel sick, he wasn’t that surprised. Just a few days earlier, his wife, Brandy, had tested positive for coronavirus, but there wasn’t much […]
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Hydroxycholoroquine is more likely to work early in the illness than after it has crossed a certain threshold NY […]
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times We Will be Judged by Our Compassion and Deeds and Not Our Dogma Movie: Ramanujan: A Prophet of Mathematics Born […]
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: What is common between the fundamentalists of all the Abrahamic and other faiths is denial of evidence and scientific observations and an insistence on […]
Our favorite post: The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia BCG vaccine Microscopic image of the Calmette-Guérin bacillus, Ziehl–Neelsen stain, magnification:1,000nn Vaccine description Target disease Tuberculosis Type Live bacteria Clinical data AHFS/Drugs.com FDA Professional Drug Information Pregnancy category US: C (Risk not ruled out) Routes […]
Our favorite post of the week: FDA authorizes experimental drug remdesivir for emergency use in COVID-19 patients Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Today is […]
Source: Bloomberg By Akshat Rathi New study finds a correlation, but clinical trials are still in progress Countries with mandatory policies to vaccinate against tuberculosis register fewer coronavirus deaths than countries that don’t have those policies, a new study has found. The preliminary study posted on medRxiv, a site for unpublished […]