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Your Guide to Health Fraud
Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions

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Yes, we hate them. They mean anyone can follow us anywhere and at anytime. No corner of the earth seems to be free from them. One even followed my father on Hajj and even when he dropped it at Mina amongst the millions of people someone found it and rung him. Yes, its the mobile phone.

Unfortunately I own up to having one, I have to, as I realise my 3 year old nephew knows what to do with a SIM card before I do. It's hard work keeping up with kids these days. But IS IT SAFE? According to the research available to us...

"Clinical bottom line (2003)
There is no convincing evidence linking mobile phone use to cancers of the head. What evidence we have points to there being no link, though what cannot be excluded is long-term heavy use of mobile phones, with a long latency for cancer development.

There is evidence of a small increased risk of leukaemia with occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields."

Time will tell I suppose.

Mobile phones, magnetic fields, and cancer
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Cancer/mobmagca.html

The Report Tackling cancer in England: saving more lives has just been published by the National Audit Office.

Umm Ilhaam remembers that whilst at Medical School she was taught that in a certain area of England, the Muslim women have really high rates of breast cancer and late diagnosis. This was found to be because they didn't like being examined so left their suspicious symptoms until it was too late. Although this may sound like a ridiculous mistake to some, it still happens. She now practices in this area and has met people where she works who don't like their women (or even themselves!) being treated by "kufar". At the same time they don't like their women to study or work in Medicine. Is it any wonder they have some of the highest rates of disease in the country?

The frightening stats are as follows:

"More than one in three people in England will develop cancer at some point in their life. One in four will die from it. There are about 225,000 new cases per year in England, and some 130,000 deaths. The leading four cancers – breast, lung, bowel and prostate - account for about half of new cases and deaths....

The report stresses that more action is required by patients to report suspicious symptoms.

Today's report highlights the fact that the most effective way of preventing cancer is for people to stop smoking. One contribution to this is that the NHS has encouraged hundreds of thousands of people to stop at least for a short period."

Read the report http://www.nao.org.uk/pn/03-04/0304364.htm

Some medical fiqh relating to treatment by the non-Mulsim or opposite gender:

The order in seeking medical treatment (for a woman) would be from a:

a) Muslim female doctor
b) non-Muslim female doctor
c) Muslim male doctor
d) Non-Muslim male doctor

see full article:
http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/qa00002659.aspx

and also, "I have a breast lump but donÂ’t want to be examined by a male doctor"
http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/qa00003021.aspx

اللهُمّ صَلِّ عَلَى سَيِّدِنا مُحَمَّدٍ

طِبِّ القُلُوبِ وَدَوائِها

وَنُورِ الأَبْصَارِ وَضِيَائِهَا

وَعَافِيَةِ الأَبْدَانِ وَ شِفَائِهَا

وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ وَسَلِّمْ

O Lord! Send blessings on our master Muhammad,
The medicine of hearts and their cure,
The light of eyes and their illumination,
The health of bodies and their healing,
And upon his family, companions, and send peace.

http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/QA00000764.aspx

This is the first post on this web log. The above is a the Salaat al Tibbiyya, a prayer especially for illness. There are people in this world who do this dua all the time, when they walk they recite it, when they stand they recite it, when they sit they recite it. Oh Allah make us like them and with them in this world and the next. Amin.