Author Prof. Peter E Pormann is primarily concerned with the transmission of the Greek medical and scientific heritage into the Islamic world. He has published on medicine and philosophy in Late Antique Alexandria, Greek-Syriac -Arabic translation technique, the history of mental illness and hospital provisions in tenth-century Baghdad, and medieval […]
Source: The New York Times Forty years ago, long before the recent afternoon when Dr. Joseph Dutkowsky knelt at the warped feet of his 4-year-old patient, he was a small-town teenager approaching his Catholic confirmation and needing to select a patron saint. He made an unlikely choice, a newly canonized […]
By Tony Todd : Half of all medicines sold in France are either useless or dangerous, according to a book authored by two eminent French medical experts. According to Philippe Even, former head of the Necker Hospital in Paris, and Bernard Debré, a doctor and member of parliament for the opposition UMP […]
Source: NY Times. Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The […]
Antioxidant-Rich Diet Linked to Reduced Risk of Pancreatic Cancer As researchers devote more and more time to studying the link between diet and disease, it is becoming clear that the […]
By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat Alpha Lipoic Acid is a naturally produced substance in our body which is also found in certain foods. It is a unique vitamin-like substance which; […]
Source: The New York Times Chagas disease, caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects, has been named “the new AIDS of the Americas” in a lengthy editorial published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The authors, several of whom are tropical disease experts from Baylor College of Medicine […]
Editor’s note: Papillomaviruses and some of hepatitis can essentially be considered sexually transmitted diseases. Perhaps family values of Islam would help. Read one of my previous articles: Saving yourself from […]
Source: The New York Times HAVANA — Yudelsy García O’Connor, the first baby known to have been born with H.I.V. in Cuba, is not merely still alive. She is vibrant, funny and, at age 25, recently divorced but hoping to remarry and have children. Her father died of AIDS when she was […]
By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat, MBBS, DCH (UK), FCPS (Pakistan) Assistant Professor, Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Pakistan The Brick to Bridge the Cell Wall Damage! Plaquex is a generic product […]
Source: USA Today. Conventional wisdom says that hardship can make us old before our time.In fact, a new study suggests that violence leaves long-term scars on children’s bodies — not just in bruises on the skin, but also altering their DNA, causing changes that are equivalent to seven to 10 years […]
Oliva, now six months, was born completely white because she had such a low count of haemoglobin – the chemical which carries oxygen in red blood cells – that it could not officially be classed as ‘blood’. She was given less than two hours to live but survived thanks to […]
Are you tired or have you been taking treatment for low thyroid function and still are tired? If so then desiccated thyroid extract may be something for you to explore! […]
Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization warns that resistance to antibiotics could bring “the end of modern medicine as we know it”. Already a scratch on the leg of a child could have fatal consequences. The problem is also caused by modern agriculture, where feeding antibiotics to cattle […]
Source: American Scientist: Genes we inherit and environmental factors both influence human behaviors. Scientists have recently discovered other underlying processes at work. So-called jumping genes, segments of DNA that can […]
ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2012) — Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells. Now […]
Doctors will do anything to keep some patients alive, but they take a different approach when it comes to their own lives, according to USC Medical School’s Ken Murray. Murray writes at Zócalo Public Square: Of course, doctors don’t want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern […]
Source: NY Times. Dr. Eric Topol is only half joking when he says the smartphone is the future of medicine — because most of his patients already seem “surgically connected” to one. A blood pressure cuff from Withings works with an iPhone or iPad to track blood pressure over time […]
Hepatitis C vaccine a step closer: University of Alberta researchers Researchers at the University of Alberta claim to have developed a formula that could lead to a vaccine for hepatitis […]
One morning when I was in my 20s, I woke up to the familiar sound of a banging radiator and the unfamiliar sensation of spinning. A half beat after I opened my eyes, I felt a strong swell of nausea. To my single 25-year-old mind, this was the stuff of […]