Astronomy, medicine, theology, physics, arithmetic, poetry — there was seemingly no discipline left untouched by the renowned polymath Avicenna, celebrated today by Google Doodle in honor of what ...

Ibn Sīnā known as Avicenna (980-1037) was a Persian physician and is considered the most famous and influential philosopher and scientist of the medieval Islamic world. Iranians also mark National ...

image: An ancient Arabic medical encyclopedia written in the eleventh century provides a model for practicing individualized medicine, says a Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) scientist who, ...

For pulmonary ailments, certain medieval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. For pulmonary ...

In the world of science and medicine, the name of the Uzbek scholar, Avicenna, shines like a guiding star, inspiring generations of scientists and physicians. Born in 980 CE in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, ...

The chief landmark in the history of genetics is most likely the work of Gregor Mendel on pea plants in the 19th century, which later was translated to the concept of Mendelian inheritance in medical ...

Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...