Avicenna Journal of Medicine: Reviving fading legacy

Avicenna and Evidence Based Medicine

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. It is unsurprising then that some have counseled complementary and alternative medicine practitioners to resist EBM . The efficacy of medicinal herbs does need to be established and toxicity, contraindications and side effects also need to be investigated, and this is best done...

avicenna journal of neuropsychophysiology

International Electronic Journal of Medicine

International Electronic Journal of Medicine (IEJM) is an open access electronic journal that covers all aspects of medicine and medical sciences. We invite authors from all over the world to send their manuscripts to IEJM. Manuscripts submitted to IEJM go through a peer review process before publication in IEJM. We will ask our reviewers to finish the papers’ review within two weeks. Authors a...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...