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Religious Identity Formation Among Bangladeshi American Muslim Adolescents
By Sadia R. Chaudhury & Lisa Miller from Columbia University
Soon to be Published in the Journal of Adolescent Research later this year
Although Islam is the fastest growing religion in America, very little research has been conducted on the lived experiences of Muslim-Americans. In this pilot study, the first […]

Source: BBC News Health

Playing computer games such as the Nintendo Wii can improve a surgeon’s performance in the operating theatre, a US study shows.

Only certain games are effective - those requiring delicate movements.
The fine hand control required to play these games acts as a warm up and hones scalpel skills the Banner Good Samaritan Medical […]

The Los Angeles Based Umma Clinic was recently featured in the LA Times:
Source: LA Times

The UMMA facility promotes interreligious cooperation to provide medical and other services to low-income residents in South L.A.

By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
It grew out of the 1992 riots, a vision by a small group of Muslim medical students […]

Looks like a great event. Let me know if you’re going. I’m going to try to make it (although I have an exam that following week)
Islam & Health: Treating Muslims: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Saturday, November 17, 2007
8:30am - 4:00pm
New York University School of Medicine
401 E. 30th Street, Lecture Hall Schwartz F
New York, NY
The impact Islam, as […]

Source: One Good Move
Debate on Religion and Reason with Sam Harris, “Letter to a Christian Nation,” and Reza Aslan, “No god but God” from February 4, 2007 Does the Bible provide timeless prescriptions for our daily lives? Or does its inclusion of practices such as slavery preclude its ability to act as such a guide? […]

Subhanallah, the scientific barakah in qaylulas (afternoon naps - which are sunnah!)
Source: BBC News
Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death from heart disease, particularly in young healthy men, say researchers.
A six-year Greek study found that those who took a 30-minute siesta at least three times a […]

Sister Shahla F. Syed, a medical student at The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and is performing research examining health risk behaviors of American Muslims between the ages of 12 and 24 currently living in the United States. The information collected will be used to determine the health needs of young American Muslims.
Participation […]

Source: Zaytuna Podcast
Shaykh Hamza’s latest insightful Zaytuna Videocast on the Science Delusion. He responds to Richard Dawkin’s & Sam Harris’ latest books (both anti-God /anti-Religion).
Basically his major point is that these authors just take the best of science and compare it against the worst of religion. They point out all the great that has come […]

This week’s issue of TIME Magazine features a spirited debate between atheist biologist Dr. Richard Dawkins (PhD) and Christian geneticist Dr. Francis Collins (MD* PhD [*Collins is a real doctor unlike Dawkins, lol]).
Dawkins, a Darwinian evolutionist, has been an outspoken atheist for decades ridiculing all religions. He has quite a large following especially in Europe […]

Nature Journal (The same journal that published Watson & Crick’s discovery that the DNA molecule was a double helix more than 50 years ago) has recently published a quite comprehensive special on Islam in Science in their latest issue.
You can check out the entire special section here.
Although I haven’t yet had the time to read […]

Craigslist Rules!
Ive gotten a TV, desk, and even my home off this website. Its a great website with so much to offer. Anyways, so I was going through our school message board for an ethics course, when i came across the following:

Wow. I know if i were in the doc’s position, I would probably […]

*Source: Dr. Mansur Khan, MD MPH, from the UMMA Community Clinic (via the AMHP E-Mail ListServ)*
The First Muslim-Run Clinic for the Underserved in the United States:

Subhanallah!
And here’s the complete public recognition of the UMMA Community Clinic’s achievements on its 10th Anniversary by Representative Maxine Waters.

Muslim Americans have made contributions in many different fields… Umma […]

Faraaz Shah sent me the following article by Mubashar Khan (See Right: both are First-Year Med Students at Mt. Sinai Med School). It’s an excellent read. Personally, I have always refrained from smoking sheesha or anything for that matter. It truly is a shame how popular ’sheesha’ has become.

The Silent but Dangerous New Fad in […]

The Sunnah and Health
By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson
Source: Alhambra Productions Forum
[This following article is based on a lecture given by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson in London, England. It was previously published in the Muslim Word—a monthly newsletter in Toronto—in the May, 1998 issue. This current version includes a new introduction, several additions, and has […]

In school, part of our curriculum entails that we sit in with a local assigned doctor every other week for a couple of hours. We are supposed to observe and learn from patient-doctor interactions, and aid in taking patient profiles, taking vital signs, and doing literature searches regarding the patients’ conditions. As many of you […]