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...

In his 2000 best-selling novel, Dan Brown tells the fictional story of an apparent plot by the Illuminati, the self-proclaimed "enlightened ones," against the Vatican. Apparently life truly does sometimes imitate art.

The AVICENNA VIRTUAL CAMPUS project, championed by UNESCO, has the aim to accelerate the adoption and use of ICT-assisted Open Distance Learning (ODL) in the Euro-Med region. As a backbone of this project, the UNED is in charge of creating a knowledge database, called Avicenna Virtual Library which will contain educational and methodological materials suitable for developing educational modules...

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...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged nearly every aspect of life and superseded issues at the core populist radical right (PRR) parties' ideology, dispossessing them one their main narratives. This also Alternative for Germany (AfD), a relatively young but strong PRR party in opposition. We explore how adjusted its policy supply to this unprecedented situation affected popularity among...

this is a letter to editor.There is growing interest in the health benefits of botanical diuretics. (1-2) ‎Avicenna (980-1037 AD), the foremost Iranian physician,‎‏ ‏introduced ‎numerous herbs as diuretics in his renowned book of Canon of Medicine. (3)‎Avicenna and his followers have recommended herbal diuretics for most ‎ailments accompanied by fluid superabundance like lassitude, oedema, and ...

The automated generation of multimedia reports for timevarying scenes on the basis of visual data constitutes a challenging research goal with a high potential for many interesting applications. In this paper, we report on our work towards an automatic commentator system for RoboCup, the Robot World-Cup Soccer. Rocco (RoboCupCommentator) is a prototype system that has emerged from our previous ...