What can Avicenna teach us in time of Coronavirus?
Source: Al Jazeera By Hamid Dabashi, who is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Every day at 7pm in New York, we come […]
How the Fields of Neurology and Psychology Started in the 19th Century, Out of Religious Dogma
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In 1858 a simple peasant girl, 14-year-old, named Bernadette Soubirous, living in the small village of Lourdes in […]
The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic
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 […]
Rumi: The Meeting Point of the East and the West
Epigraph: “Out beyond the ideas of right-doing and wrongdoing, there is a field I will meet you there. It’s the world full of things to talk about.” Rumi Written and […]
Hospital director dies in Wuhan as China designates dead nurses and doctors as ‘martyrs’
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Hong Kong (CNN) The death toll from the novel […]
People are more frightened of coronavirus than they need to be, but the culprit is not who you think
Gigantic efforts to control the outbreak convince people they are in terrible danger By Patrick Cockburn; @indyworld Source: INDEPENDENT CO UK If I was sitting in a restaurant and […]
Immune discovery ‘may treat all cancer’
Source: BBC By James Gallagher; Health and science correspondent A newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers, say scientists. The Cardiff University team discovered […]
Richard Dawkins on Medicine, Placebo and Homeopathy
He talks about homeopathy very precisely in the first few minutes of this video. He makes a very profound point that whoever establishes the scientific validity of homeopathy, will not […]
Successor To Khamenei Died Because He Trusted Islamic Medicine, Son Reveals
Source: Radio Farda The son of a prominent Ayatollah, once named as a possible successor to the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader, says his father died because he trusted Islamic medicine […]
The extreme PMS blamed for murders
Source: BBC It affects the health of up to 8% of women and has even been linked to outbursts of violence, but premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, is still poorly […]
The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to William Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for how human cells adapt to the availability of oxygen
Epigraph: Whoever saves a life, it will be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been jointly […]
Book Review: 1001 Cures — Muslim Heritage and Royal Society London
Our source: Muslim Heritage website Book by Prof. Peter E. Pormann Islamic civilisation developed a system of healthcare that, at its apogée, was envied by both friend and foe. Therefore, […]
Meditation waterfall music: We have the best collection for purpose driven meditation
Suggested reading Meditation is For the Whole Day: The Right Recording to Play Zikr Illahi (remembrance of Allah) and the human mind Meditation is common across many religious groups in the U.S. Doctor’s […]
Royal College of Physicians adopts neutral position on assisted suicide despite widespread opposition among members
Source:CT The Royal College of Physicians has abandoned its historic opposition to assisted suicide despite over half of its members saying they would refuse to participate in the practice if it was made legal. The RCP said it had been moved to change its position after a survey of its […]
BBC Video: The Most Ambitious Trial for Parkinson Disease
Tom Isaacs was diagnosed with Parkinson’s aged 27. And for 17 years he’s been desperate to find a cure. Now along with 41 others he’s volunteered for a ground-breaking medical […]
Has Trump hypnotized his base with repeated suggestions — Watch a Ted Talk?
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The contagious thought that could kill you Kripkean Dogmatism: The Best Metaphor to Understand Religious and Political Debates Ted Talk: Homeopathy, Quackery […]
Common weed killer glyphosate increases cancer risk by 41%, study says
By Emily Dixon, CNN CNN — Glyphosate, an herbicide that remains the world’s most ubiquitous weed killer, raises the cancer risk of those exposed to it by 41%, a new […]
A New Blood Test Could Detect Alzheimer’s 10 Years Earlier
Source: MSN By Emily Price A new blood test could potentially detect Alzheimer’s in patients over 10 years before symptoms appear. The secret is the levels of a protein in […]
The ultrasound scan you can do yourself
Source: BBC A US company has produced an ultrasound scanner that plugs into an iPhone and costs $2,000 (£1,555). Necessity is often credited as the mother of invention. For Jonathan Rothberg it was the frustration of sitting around in hospital waiting rooms that made him the father of a new […]
Medical aid in dying is the ultimate religious freedom
Source: Star Tribune Under current law, people who have made every life decision based on their personal values and faith suddenly become, due to a terminal illness, a victim of […]
