Tag Archive | islam
Questions about accommodating the religious beliefs of a patient? There’s an app for that
Elsevier, the publisher of scholarly and medical journals, has produced an app for the iPhone and iPad called “Care of Muslim Patients – A Practical Guide.” It’s a reference guide to help doctors accommodate Islamic beliefs and cultural practices, such as advising patients who are fasting during Ramadan. Aasim Padela, MD, who is Director of […]
A Religious Approach to Health Disparities
In America, the issue of health disparities is often considered as a matter of black and white…and Hispanic and Asian-American, and so on. Most of the time, U.S. populations are sliced into categories of race and ethnicity so that researchers can compare health measures and determine culturally relevant interventions where needed. But racial identity is […]
LabBook June 1, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our new weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. […]
Finding the Muslim View on Medicine
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious minority in the United States, with over 7 million Americans declaring themselves as followers of Islam and more than 2,000 mosques nationwide. But in spite of the numbers, little data has been collected about American Muslims’ beliefs about health and disease, or their experience in the U.S. health care system. […]
