532 research outputs found
Cutaneous metastasis of gastric carcinoma: A rare case with unusual presentation site
No full textSkin metastases are relatively rare but are of important clinical significance because they usually indicate a worse prognosis. The most common sources are lung and colorectal cancers in males and breast and colorectal in females. In this report, we presented a chest wall skin metastasis of gastric origin in a 50-year-old male. Tumor metastasis to unusual locations such as chest wall skin and from unusual origins such as stomach is of great clinical importance
Correction to: Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) concentration and health risk assessment of aerosols dust in Nicosia, North Cyprus (Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, (2024), 333, 3, (1073-1082), 10.1007/s10967-023-09346-w)
No full textThe article “Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) concentration and health risk assessment of aerosols dust in Nicosia, North Cyprus”, written by Hesham M. H. Zakaly, Akbar Abbasi, Nouf Almousa and Ahmet Savaşan, was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 333, issue 3, page 1073–1082, the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed t
In Quest of Wisdom; Missing Segment of Current Medicine: Wisdom; Missing Segment of Current Medicine
No full textBackground and Aim: Considering the history of Islamic and Iranian culture we should represent new solutions able to join the current medicine and the former Hikmat (Wisdom) in the light of the medical world-view and through making use of the historical instructions of hikmat.
Materials and Methods: In the present review study, using keywords such as Hikmat, Aristotle ethics, medical research, medical ethics as well as bioethics, we searched for the published articles and resources regarding this topic, and then they were analyzed.
Ethical Considerations: Honesty in the literature and citation analysis and reporting were considered.
Findings: From the old days, pious people always had sought wisdom. Medicine was considered a kind of practical wisdom that is called Pyrrhonism or wisdom and the physician was known as a pious person. A physician must reach the highest degree of knowledge so he would gain virtue. In the past, science was accompanied by the perfectness of soul and physician for achieving the truth, had to learn the medicine along with wisdom, because wisdom and medicine had a close relationship.
But nowadays seems that medical science enters into the age of instability and morals in all fields have collapsed and the continuance of this process has not any bright perspective for the future of medicine. One of the obvious reasons for this situation in two recent decades is the separation between medical sciences and humanism.
Conclusion: In recent decades that western world was in seek of ethics for the purpose of amends the lack of religion and virtuality in their society, we in a opposite attitude with separation of tentative science especially medicine from humanism, have caused a great and irrecoverable damages on the body of our medicine, so that unfortunately our country is following the west in this matter. The reason of this matter is in the collapse of values that was the foundation of previous wisdom, the wisdom that seems to be the missing segment of current medicine.
In this article we show the necessity of attention to the medical ethics as a fundamental element in reaching the goal of medicine based on wisdom.
*Corresponding Author: Mahmoud Abbasi; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-6818
Please cite this article as: Abbasi M. In Quest of Wisdom; Missing Segment of Current Medicine. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1: 1-9 (e9). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.3813
Requirements of Consent and Innocence and its Impact on Medical Liability Falling: Requirements of consent and innocence
No full textBackground and Aim: The theory of consent and innocence are two major approaches in medical law that, studying them as one of the essential conditions of medical liability, has special significance. This study aimed to analyze the discussion of consent and innocence and its impact on medical liability falling.
Materials and Methods: In the present study, keywords of consent, innocence, doctor, and liability in databases PubMed, Magiran, SID, ISC, and Google Scholar were searched and relevant literature was searched and analyzed.
Ethical Considerations: Principles of ethics and integrity in the search, citation, and literature analysis were taken into consideration.
Findings: In this study, after explaining the concept of patient consent and satisfactory and capacity conditions in its declaration and also the concept of innocence and its terms, it is emphasized that every wise and mature person has the right to decide about the treatment or medical method recommended for him.
Conclusion: Although the legislator explicitly pointed to obtain consent from the patient or his legal representatives in surgeries and medical operations and the existence of such consent in all surgical and medical operations is known as a requirement except in cases of urgent, but because in our legal system to comply with Jurisprudence, the obligation to result in surgeries and medical operations indicates the nature of the commitment of doctors and theoretical basis of medical liability, obtaining patient consent, legitimation of medical procedures and respecting the legitimacy of scientific and technical aspects of the state system are not the complete reasons of the collapse of medical liability and compensation the physician is responsible for a compensation of the damages applied to the patient unless before starting treatment acquittal is received from the patient or his representatives.
*Corresponding Author: Mahmoud Abbasi; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-6818
Please cite this article as: Abbasi M. Requirements of Consent and Innocence and its Impact on Medical Liability Falling. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1:1-8: (e7). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.38132  
An O(n log n) algorithm for finding dissimilar strings
No full textLet be a finite alphabet and . A string is said to be -dissimilar to , if no length substring of is equal to any length substring of . We present an algorithm which on input and an integer outputs an integer and such that:
- is -dissimilar to .
- There does not exist a string of length which is dissimilar to .Technical report LCSR-TR-26
Islamic Bioethics and Secular Bioethics and Interaction between them: Interaction between Islamic Bioethics and Secular Bioethics
No full textBackground and Aim: Nowadays, we are observing the increasing development of sciences, particularly biological sciences and medicine. In the Muslim world, the ethical requirements of such scientific developments are taken into account without paying sufficient attention to their indigenous and Islamic aspects. Even international institutions are not properly informed of the need for the religious aspects of bioethical discourse in Muslim countries. Hence, this study attempts to address the differences in the ideologies of these two ethical theories.
Materials and Methods: In this review article, the keywords "bioethics", "Islam", "secularism", "philosophy of ethics", "ideology differences" and "ethical theories in secularism" were searched in PubMed, SID, and Google Scholar databases and the relevant literature was determined and analyzed.
Ethical Considerations: Honesty and integrity were taken into consideration in searching, analyzing, and reporting the texts.
Findings: Of the appropriate methods in analyzing the texts, one is the comparative study between the ideological and meta-ethical foundations of Islamic bioethics and secular bioethics, some of which are: the differences in the belief in the origin of existence and the Creator of existence; differences in the attitudes towards the totality of existence; differences in the views of the materialistic existence and the laws governing it. In addition, there exist anthropological differences in these two ethical theories, among which we can refer to the differences in the attitudes towards the creation of human beings, the differences in the attitudes towards the dimensions of human existence, and life after death. Finally, we can also refer to the meta-ethical differences between Islamic bioethics and secular bioethics, including the difference in moral ontology, the difference in ethical epistemology, ethical semantics, as well as several similarities between Islamic bioethics and secular bioethics that are mostly normative.
Conclusion: Accepting the differences and similarities can be found as a present reality to begin a constructive bilateral dialogue and to introduce the fundamentals of Islamic bioethics.
*Corresponding Author: Mahmoud Abbasi; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-6818
Please cite this article as: Abbasi M, Shamsi Gooshki E. Islamic Bioethics and Secular Bioethics and Interaction between them. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1:1-10: (e3). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.3812
Characterization, geostatistical modeling and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in groundwater resources of northeastern Iran
No full textStudy region: Northeastern Iran. Study focus: In northeastern Iran, water needed for municipal and agricultural activities mainly comes from groundwater resources. However, it is subject to substantial anthropogenic and geogenic contamination. We characterize the sources of groundwater contamination by employing an integrated approach that can be applied to the identification of large-scale contamination sources in other regions. An existing dataset of georeferenced water quality parameters from 676 locations in northeast of Iran was analyzed to investigate the geochemical properties of groundwater. Gridding of the parameters graphically illustrates the areas affected by high concentrations of As, Cl−, Cr, Fe, Mg2+, Na+, NO3−, Se, and SO42-. We then identified potential anthropogenic and geogenic contamination sources by employing random forest (RF) regression modeling. New hydrological insights for the region: Random forest (RF) models show that the major ions, As, Cr, Fe, and Se content of groundwater are mainly determined by geology in the study area. Modeling also links groundwater NO3− contamination with sewage discharge into aquifers as well as the application of nitrogenous and animal-waste fertilizers. Areas of high salinity result from evaporate deposits and irrigation return flow. Medium to high non-carcinogenic health risk is found in areas with high concentrations of geogenic As and Cr in groundwater. Our approach can be applied elsewhere to analyze regional groundwater quality and associated health risks as well as identify potential sources of contamination.</p
On the Genus of the Star Graph
No full textThe star graph Sn is a graph with Sn the set of all permutations over {1,...,n} as its vertex set; two vertices π1 and π2 are connected if π1 can be obtained form π2 by swapping the first element of π1 with one of the other n-1 elements. In this paper we establish the genus of the star graph. We show that the genus, gn of Sn , is exactly equal to n!(n-4)/6+ 1 by establishing a lower bound and inductively giving a drawing on a surface of appropriate genusTechnical report DCS-TR-34
The Spirituality Integration in Iranian Health Education: Best Lessons for Development: spirituality integration in Iranian health education
No full textBackground and Aim: In the recent decade, nursing and medical schools increasingly tend to incorporate spirituality education in curriculums. This study was conducted to determine the spiritual education status and the gaps in Iranian nursing and medical schools and identify the best interventional tools to improve.
Materials and Methods: It was performed a descriptive-comparative research by using an advanced search in international and national databases to collect all related materials on spiritual education.
Ethical Considerations: Moral rules such as honesty and integrity in the search, analysis, reporting of the searched literature, and citation of the sources were taken into consideration.
Findings: The final sample comprised 48 articles concerning spirituality integration in nursing and medical education. According to didactic various aspects, the findings subdivided into the associated subjects including; spiritual care education status in nursing and medical schools, educational patterns, interventions evaluation, and Iranian studies assessment.
Conclusion: There is a leading gap regarding the spirituality integration in nursing and medical curriculums in Iran, while the religious context and the centralized management of health education in Iran can be considered as appropriate opportunities for this aim. Based on the findings, the development of a structured educational system, sensitizing educational stakeholders, and their stimulation by competitive award programs can be considered to more effective integration of spiritual training in the health curricula.
*Corresponding Author: Mahmoud Abbasi; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-6818
Please cite this article as: Mehrabi M. Memaryan N. Mohaghegh N. Abbasi M. The Spirituality Integration in Iranian Health Education: Best Lessons for Development. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1:1-9: (e16). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.38167  
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