The Guardians Council has declared the end of the term of the fourth city and village councils on August 4 but the order has yet to be officially communicated by the government. According to…
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World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1 to 7 by the World Health Organization to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies worldwide. It commemorates the…
Initial results of a study by researchers in the department of nutrition and food science at Texas A&M University in College Station show mango consumption has a positive impact on people with…
A congress on multiple sclerosis disease (MS) will be held August 2-3, at Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ardebil, said the director of Ardebil MS Society, Maryam Vahdati. Mohammad Ali Sahraian,…
Iran has reached self-sufficiency in blood and blood products, said Ali Akbar Pour-Fathollah, head of the IBTO on the 44th anniversary of Iran’s Blood Transfusion Organization. The country is now…
The former building of Kerman’s Governorate known as Shahr House has been inscribed on the National Heritage List.
Zahra Ahmadipour, the head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and…
Spain continues to break tourism records, with the number of visitors up 12% in the first six months of the year. The country has broken its own tourist records each year for the past four years,…
Russia is to remove visa requirements for Iranian tourists within three months, Russia’s ambassador to Iran said. On the threshold of a recent ceremony for signing the agreement between IDRO and…
A 2016 study on overweight and obesity in Iran indicated that the country is among the most obese with 19% of boys and girls suffering degrees of obesity.
Official data says 21% of urban…
Low consumption of milk and dairy products has put calcium deficiency in second place in nutrition deficiency ranking in Iran, said Zahra Abdollahi, director general of the Diet and…
Scientists from the Technical University of Munich have published a new paper showing that using a BACE inhibitor drug reduces the amount of amyloid beta in the brains of mice and restores the…
Six people were wounded after a 5-magnitude earthquake struck Naghan City in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province on Sunday. Around 5,000 people live in the city.
Waste disposal is not appropriate in 40 hospitals in Tehran and if the hospitals do not improve they will face the full force of the law, the head of the provincial office of the Department of…
During the past four years decay-missing-filled (DMF) index among Iranians has dropped from the previous 2.9 to the current 1.8, said health minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, on the sidelines of…
In the coming school year that starts in September, around 400,000 students in 8,000 schools will be offered first aid courses, said Masoud Habibi, head of the Youth Organization of the Iranian…
Measures have been taken to prevent the reoccurrence of the deadly stampede during the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, said the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei at…
A “spongy” crystal that can turn thin air into fuel by extracting carbon dioxide has been developed by scientists.
The Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran is currently working on the production of compost from rice bran and straw so as to prevent its disposal through the environmentally…
Up to 80% of Thailand's tsunami warning system require maintenance, the deputy director general of its Disaster Prevention Department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by…
The first phase of a wastewater treatment plant was launched on July 31 in Eslamshahr near Tehran, the head of the regional water and wastewater organization said.
Experts conducted field investigations in the southwestern Hoor al-Azim Wetland in Khuzestan Province when a large number of dead fish were reported.
After defeating Germany, a team from Iran’s Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) ranked third in the Humanoid Teen-Size League at the 21st round of RoboCup in Japan in which 300 teams from 48…
The health care delivery system is gradually reforming due largely to rising demand as the population ages. People over the age of 60 now make up 9.5% (7.6 million) of Iran’s population of 80…
During inspections of 463 automobile technical inspection centers, 15 were shut down due to violations. According to Saeid Qeisar, director of the Union of Public Transportation…
Milad Hospital has got a permit from the Health Ministry to open a cancer research center in the major hospital in Tehran, District 2, Said Dr. Mahmoud Reza Fayyaz, CEO of the hospital.
