Pharmacology: The Journey of a Chemical Compound into a Drug
Most of us have taken, or at least interacted with, medicine at some point or another in our…
Medicine
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Trypanosomes: Creatures with One Thousand and One Sheaths
If you heard that a very destructive creature was in your village, what would you expect this creature…
Preventative Medicine of Gastrointestinal Disease
Gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) is among the most common chronic diseases in the Western world, affecting up to…
Fire on the Mountain
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal illness of the nervous system, resulting in the degeneration of neurons.…
Tumor Suppressing Mechanisms and Cancer
It is estimated that there are approximately 100 trillion cells in the human body. They fulfill their duties…
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
Alzheimer’s disease is “an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, eventually even the…
Black Cumin: A Prophetic Medicine
Studies on the curative aspects of black cumin (Nigella Sativa) has seen an exponential growth in recent years.…
Complexity Or Cooperativity?
Books, bodies, and beautiful paintings – these are all emergent systems. As our understanding of these systems grows,…
The Blessing of Anesthesia in Medical Practices
Before anasthesia, even routine surgeries were painful and dangerous. Its advent has allowed for amazing advances in public…
Nanomedicine: A Novel Paradigm to Medicine
Nowadays, we have been accustomed to hear “nano-something,” and we hardly pay any attention to what this really…
The Journey of Drugs through the Body
We get ill due to various reasons and in order to get better, we sometimes get some rest,…
Ibn Sina: An Exemplary Scientist
Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in Latin and in the West) in his masterpiece The Canon of Medicine…
Sweeter Than Sugar, Black as Night, Healing as Medicine
Imagine a substance that’s fifty times sweeter than sugar and flexible enough to use as a shoelace or…
Unity of Knowledge
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an outstanding figure of our time, rejects the separation of spiritual thought from science. In…
Medication, Pregnancy and God’s Will
Pregnancy is a unique condition for women, and childbirth has always been considered to be one of the…