Renal Stone is one of the fairly common diseases in all over the world. According to statistics , its prevalence in America is between 10 to 15% (1). Iran and its neighbors such as Turkey and Pakistan locate on stone-making region. The exact prevalence and incidence rates of urinary calculi in Iran are not clear (2). Since a) mortality rate in this disease is not high, b) there is no longer tim...

Among the works utilized by Daihana for the composition of his Nibandhasamgraha on the Susrutasamhita figures a tippana by Brahmadeva, only known from quotations by a number of commentators on various ayurvedic texts. As it was assumed by P.K. Gode that Brahmadeva also wrote a commentary on Vrnda's Siddhayoga, the available evidence on Brahmadeva's activity as a commentator is collected and cri...

ion, in R. WISNOVSKY ed., Aspects of Avicenna, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, NJ

Inclusion of IJOTM in Scopus and EMBASE I t was a great pleasure to realize that the International Journal for Organ Transplantation Medicine (IJOTM) has been incorporated in the respected Elsevier databases, Scopus and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica. The editorial staff of the IJOTM acknowledges this highly esteemed recognition to the sincere support of the Avicenna Transplantation Center and the The ...

BACKGROUND Liver injury or dysfunction is considered as a serious health problem. The available synthetic drugs to treat liver disorders are expensive and cause further damage. Hence, hepatoprotective effects of some herbal drugs have been investigated, and one of the methods to choose herbs in order to study their biological effects is to search in ancient medical texts. Avicenna who is known ...

avicenna, a muslim scientist of the tenth and eleventh centuries has an important place in the history of medicine in iran and the world. furthermore, the modern medicine is laid upon the infrastructure of his medicine. in this article, the position of avicenna in the medical history and the scientific influence of his medical works in particular al-canon in the development of medical literatur...