background: physicians in islamic countries believe that fasting in ramadan is equal to ingestion of thirty pills regularly ingested every year for clearing the blood and fortifying the tissues. the effects of islamic fasting on physiologic functions in normal conditions have been considered in different studies and different topics. this study was to determine the quantitative changes of hemog...

sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (sglt2) inhibitors are a new glucose-lowering therapy for t2dm with documented benefits on blood glucose, hypertension, weight reduction and long term cardiovascular benefit. they have an inherent osmotic diuretic effect and lead to some volume loss and possible dehydration. there is some concern about the safety of using sglt2 inhibitors in muslim type 2 diabete...

A case of human eye infection caused by Brugia pahangi was reported in 2010 in a semi rural village in Selangor, peninsular Malaysia. Our report here reveals results of investigation on the vector and animal host for the transmission of the infection. We conducted entomological survey and cat blood examination in the vicinity of the patient’s home. The mosquito species Armigeres subalbatus was ...

It is conventional wisdom that Russia’s Muslim population is increasing dramatically relative to Russia’s Slavic population, and that along a variety of demographic indicators its Muslim national groups are thriving in comparison to the demographic crisis being experienced by their Slavic compatriots. Reported ethnicity data from the 2002 Russian census, released in early 2005, permit a more ri...

There seems to be a popular belief that Muslim fertility in Europe is much higher than that of non-Muslims. Part of this belief stems from the general impression of high fertility in some Muslim countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. This notion is typically transferred to Muslims living in Europe with their increasing migration along with concerns about numbers and assimilability into ...

Dropout from school hinders development as it makes human potentialities unexplored. This creates all round backwardness. Muslim communities are more backward particularly in Malda district, W.B., where the dropout rate is high. Parental decision to dropout their wards from primary education does not depend upon gender, but depend upon their economic status. Poverty influences the parents to wi...

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OBJECTIVE To explore how students learn in community-based family physicians' offices from the student's point of view. METHOD Each student completing a community-based family medicine clerkship wrote a "critical incident" narrative about an event that was particularly educational. A coding system was developed by a multidisciplinary research team and thematic analysis was conducted. RESULT...

Submitted by: Nusra Rahman, MBBS, MD (Anatomy), Yasir S. Siddiqui, MBBS, MS (Orth). From the Department of Anatomy (Rahman), and the Department of Orthopedic Surgery (Siddiqui), JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Address correspondence to: Dr. Yasir S. Siddiqui, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim Universi...

Muslim-majority countries do not use formal financial services (Honohon 2007).1 Even when financial services are available, some people view conventional products as incompatible with the financial principles set forth in Islamic law. In recent years, some microfinance institutions (MFIs) have stepped in to service low-income Muslim clients who demand products consistent with Islamic financial ...