Salikah: A Student's Digest: "An important warning from Health Canada about Safi, Karala Pills, and other Indian remedies found to have dangerously high levels of lead, mercury, and/or arsenic and other heavy metals."

When the bomb exploded last Thursday morning, ripping apart the number 30 bus outside BMA House...

"As the dust settles on London, there are many questions but few good answers: questions about courage and competence—I saw examples of both on 7 July; about the chain of causation that led to this devastation on our doorstep; about this country's dismal involvement in the Middle East, sullied by self interest and addiction to oil; about the ill-fated war on terror, the invasion of Iraq with its shifting and never convincing rationale, and the differential value placed on life on all sides; about the evil of fundamentalism of whatever creed, and the global injustice that gives it excuse."

Complemetary Medicine and Internet healthcare

Complemetary Medicine and Internet healthcare

"Whenever you use the internet for information on complementary medicine, remember my motto - if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

Edzard Ernst is professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula medicine school at the universities of Exeter and Plymouth.

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Your deceased relative may not have to have a Post Mortem these days...however, I hear it will cost relatives around £600 to have a scan instead.

"There is now some experience in the UK of carrying out postmortem investigation by means of magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI'), or 'scanning' in popular terms.

This is a non-invasive procedure, and hence more attractive than a conventional autopsy for those relatives with personal or religious objections to that course. "

Organon - UK
I discovered recently on a family planning course that there are progesterone containing contraceptives that are suitable for muslims to use (as far as I can tell). Most of the pills containing progesterone only (mini-pills) are not suitable as they interfere with implantation of a fertilised egg, which many religious people have a problem with. However, if you use an implant (into the arm), cerazette (a mini-pill which blocks ovulation) and some injections, then the main method of action is by blocking ovulation. Also, with the implant, the return to previous fertility takes only a matter of days, unlike with injections.



Also, if pregnancy is really going to harm your health, it is reassuring that up until now there have been no reported failures with the implant.



I thought I would mention this as some people who do not want to/cannot use natural/barrier methods resort to using a coil (which interferes with implantation). A huge number of Muslims where I work have coils in. Many of us have relatives that have a coil and don’t even know that there are alternatives, so the above would be better choices in these people.



Of course some people can get irregular bleeding with progesterone only methods, which could be a problem, but is still without the risks of oestrogen containing pills.