abu hafs al-haddad was one of the masters and founders of malāmatiyya (or malamatis) in nishapur in the 9th century (about 3rd hijri century). through a deep study of ancient sources, in present article, we have rendered some valuable details about his life and family, some of the aspects that reflect the main lines of his thoughts have been made clear, on one hand; and the principles of malāma...

United States is in the midst of an epidemic of obesity. Children and adults alike are increasing in girth at rapid rates. In the past four decades, the prevalence of childhood overweight, characterized by a body mass index greater than the norm for the 85th percentile, has risen by nearly 4-fold and continues to rise with each year (Ogden et al. 2002). Fifteen percent of children today are ove...

the historyof science, medical historiansmight similarly learn to incorporate biographical and social history approaches to their work. Biography, after all, is just another form of microhistory, versions of which are currently filling the pages of medical history journals. Reiterating Jordanova’s contention, Linker suggests that, by avoiding such areas of major historical debate, social histor...

Immune (or idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is commonly encountered by the practicing hematologist. Clinical management decisions have traditionally been guided by individual training and past experience. Input from the literature has been more from observational reports of case series than from scientific results of hypothesis-driven research. Practice guidelines and several surveys ...

During the period 1943-1980 a significant increase in the incidence of neuroblastoma was seen in Denmark. The incidence increased from a level corresponding to that in Finland to a level corresponding to that in the USA, and the increase appears to be continuing. The increase relates to children aged under 5 years, and is most pronounced in infants under 1 year. The incidence in the first year ...

Although several medical technologies have been around since decades and are in the continuous process of development, some latest technologies are changing the way medicine would be practiced in the future. These technologies would allow medical practice from anywhere, any time and from any device. These include smart phones, Tablet PCs, Touch screens, digital ink, voice recognition, Electroni...

It has been shown earlier that simply covering the material within anatomy objectives with didactic lectures followed by dissection may fail to produce long lasting understanding of the subject. The students are also unable to appreciate the importance of clinical anatomy integrated within various medical disciplines. A medical school may look at restructuring medical curriculum with an anatomy...

This theme issue, based on a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held in April 2014, is a celebration, a reflection and a prediction. To start, we celebrate the memory of Ross Granville Harrison FRS who first showed a century ago that chicken embryo nerve cells could be grown outside the animal [1]. This was the invention needed to begin the animal cell culture industry. Adhesion to a substrate wa...

ALLEN G. DEBUS (editor), Medicine in seventeenth century England, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 485, illus., £8.50. Reviewed by Kenneth Dewhurst, D.Phil., M.Litt., F.R.C.Psych., The Manor House, Sandford-onThames, Oxford 0X4 4YN. A symposium has some merits but more disadvantages, and this collection of papers in honour of the late C. D. ...

This is an account of reading instruction in the twentieth century. It will end, as do most essays written in the final year of any century, with predictions about the future. My hope is to provide an account of the past and present of reading instruction that will render predictions about the future transparent. Thus I begin with a tour of the historical pathways that have led us, at century’s...