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...

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...

today, on the contrary of the last ten decades, the necessity of teaching hygienic issues, and caring the children’s health, is pretty obvious. avicenna (10 ac), the famous iranian physician and philosopher, scrutinized the health and hygiene with a deep insight to the matter. he considered the wellness not only as the recovery from the disease, but emphasized the maintenance of health by sugge...

this article reviews the commentary tradition around the metaphysics of avicenna’s shifā’ as it evolved in the lands that belonged to avicenna’s own cultural horizon, most of all in iran. from this overview it emerges that this tradition is characterized by a keen interest  in textual criticism and a solid philosophical grasp of avicenna’s metaphysical doctrines. this interest is reflected in t...

archaeological researches indicate that the use of silver was common in various practices; there were numerous mints for silver coinage across sassanid persia (circa 620 ad) indicating that persians were familiar with silver mining and its refining process. medical practice also benefited from that expertise, and in the course of the following centuries new forms of utilizing silver began to em...

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...

Studying the history of science could help develop an understanding of the contributions made by ancient nations towards scientific advances. Although Iranians had an important impact on the improvement of science, the history of Iranian medicine seems not to have been given enough attention by historians. The present study focused on the history of anesthesia and pain management in Iranian med...

Endocrinology defined earlier as the study of cell communication via messenger molecules or hormones transversing extracellular space, now extends to inter and intra cellular spaces. Development of the understanding of functioning of endocrine glands parallels the evolution of clinical sciences in the history of medicine. For example Rhazes, died 925 A.D, discussed in detail the sex organs and ...

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...