Last year (ended March 20), 26,592 cases of child abuse were reported to the State Welfare Organization’s Social Emergency Response Center, said Hossein Asad Beygi, head of the center.
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The national scheme to control non-communicable diseases, known as IraPEN, will soon be implemented nationwide through universities of medical sciences across the country, said a top official at…
A cholera epidemic in Yemen, which has infected more than 332,000 people, could spread during the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September, although Saudi authorities are well prepared…
Iran and Afghanistan have held preliminary talks about the water rights of transboundary Hamoun Wetlands, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said.
Speaking to ILNA, the…
Paleontologists from China and Iran have discovered the fossilized tracks of a biped dinosaur in the mountainous areas of Alborz Province during a joint expedition.
Iranian mathematics scholar Maryam Mirzakhani passed away on Saturday after succumbing to her third bout with breast cancer.
Firouz Naderi, a retired NASA scientist and former director of…
Iran’s Blood Transfusion Organization has denied a statement by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration about importing whole blood.
Speaking to ISNA, Bashir…
An estimated 2.4% of households are facing unbearably high health costs, according to the Health Ministry spokesman.
Catastrophic health expenditure, or CHE, is defined in Iran as payment…
Three in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new joint report by…
Patients’ need to seek services such as tests and imaging and buy drugs outside a state-owned hospital has declined significantly since the launch of the Health Reform Plan in 2014.
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Around 3,500 organ transplant operations were performed in Iran in the last fiscal that ended in March, according to the director of the Health Ministry’s Organ Transplant Management Office.
Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway Company plans to install platform screen doors in 11 of the most crowded subway stations in Tehran. “The scheme will cost around 100 billion rials ($2.6…
The Iranian Red Crescent Society has distributed more than 14,000 air pollution masks in four dust storm-hit cities in Sistan- Baluchestan Province over the past 3 days as the southeastern region…
An Iranian pharmaceutical company has managed to produce cabazitaxel, an effective yet expensive prostate cancer medicine.
Branded Cabotax, the drug has been developed by the Tehran-based…
A senior tourism official in East Azarbaijan Province has called for tempering expectations over Tabriz's selection as the capital of Islamic tourism in 2018.
Morteza Abdar Bakhshayesh,…
Iran's tourism authority has given industry players until the weekend to come up with a plan to target the growing East Asian travel markets.
After a record 2016, the number of people visiting the UK from abroad continued to rise at a ferocious pace during the first four months of 2017.
Around 8.3 million visits to the UK were…
The clock has started to tick on a 50-day deadline for foreign governments to meet new US standards for passports and sharing information about their citizens.
Failing to meet the deadline…
Armenian investors are keen on buildings hotels in Iran, the president of Yerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industries said.
A total of 59 relics were seized last week in Varamin, Tehran Province, during a police raid, a local cultural heritage official said.
"The artifacts date back to the 3rd millennium BC,"…
In the absence of official data on age and substance abuse, experts and officials have made conflicting claims about how early people turn to narcotics in Iran.
People who drink around three cups of coffee a day may live longer than non-coffee drinkers, a landmark study has found.
A vaccine has for the first time been shown to protect against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea, scientists in New Zealand say.
There are fears gonorrhea is becoming untreatable…
Following the success of a scheme for underprivileged children conducted by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee during the holy month of Ramadan (May 27 – June 25) in Tehran, the organization has…
A book containing stories written by children suffering from cancer was unveiled late last week.
Titled “The Tales of Mahak’s Children”, the stories and pictures in the book are written and…
