Naturally occurring substances mentioned in medieval medical literatures currently have, and will continue to have, a crucial place in drug discovery. Avicenna was a Persian physician who is known as the most influential medical writers in the Middle ages. Avicenna`s Canon of Medicine, the most famous books in the history of medicine, presents a clear and organized summary of all the medical kn...

PURPOSE To extract the causes and risk factors of urinary incontinence from an old medical text by Avicenna entitled "Canon of Medicine" and comparing it with contemporary studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, etiology and risk factors of urinary incontinence were extracted from Avicenna's "Canon of Medicine". Commentaries written on this book and other old reliable medical texts abou...

one of the important philosophical issues and debates dating back over two thousand years, and the beginning of wisdom in ancient greece has been proposed, is the problem of essence. some believe that the discussion on the issue of substance is aristotelian thought, and believe that the roots of this attribution in aristotle approach to the existence and its relation with the essence and nature...

Cancer is a cohort of disorders that involves transformation, dysregulation of apoptosis, uncontrolled cell proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis. Extensive research during the last five decades has revealed much about the biology of cancer. Drugs used to treat most cancers are those that can block cell cycle, cell signaling, including growth factor signaling; inflammation, angio...

Arterial hypertension is a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases. Data from observational studies indicate that it may affect 90% of the general population during their lifetime. Despite much research that has been done, the exact cause of this disorder is still unknown. Avicenna (Ibn Sina) in his masterpiece The Canon of Medicine described most of the clinical featur...

Introduction and Objectives. Roboflex Avicenna represents a new platform for flexible ureteroscopy, capable to provide a safer and more effective lithotripsy for renal calculi. Materials and methods. The study was prospective and included a number of 66 patients which underwent robotic flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) for renal calculi between July and December 2015. All the procedures were perform...