As part of the fourth goal of the 2014 Health Reform Plan which calls for reforms in the medical education system, music therapy is to be offered as an academic discipline in universities of…
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The Iran Veterinary Organization said that the N5H8 virus earlier detected in seven provinces has now spread to 10-12 provinces across the country.
However, the organization only released…
France has reversed its policy on organ donations so that all people could become donors on their death unless they join an official register to opt out.
The new law presumes consent for…
Only one-fifth of Iranians are aware of the services provided by the State Welfare Organization to improve the quality of life, said Habibollah Masoudi Farid, deputy head of the SWO, on Tuesday.…
Currently, 4 million people in the country, mostly living in deprived areas such as Sistan-Baluchestan Province, receive fewer calories than they need, said Rasuol Dinarvand, head of the Food and…
Fire broke out in a 10-storey residential building (with 80 units) in Phase 1, Ekbatan Township (Shahrak-e-Ekbatan) located in northwestern Tehran on Wednesday, said spokesman of Tehran’s…
Leading immunologists and allergy specialists from around the world will gather February 15-17 at the Third International Congress on Immunology Asthma and Allergy at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini…
The provincial office of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs in Sistan-Baluchistan Province is holding ‘laughter yoga’ courses for patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) to help with…
Pakistan began a special five-day polio immunization campaign in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday for children under five after a rare strain of the virus was found in sewage samples,…
Seventeen women were elected to the Majlis (parliament) in the 10th parliamentary elections held last February. The 290-member assembly convened in May 2016.
A 13% hike in drug seizures was reported by Iran’s anti-narcotics police in the first nine months of the current fiscal that ends in March, compared to the same period last year when illicit drugs…
Air Pollution doesn’t contribute to the onset of seizures or ‘epileptic attacks’ in patients suffering from epilepsy, said Dr Fatemeh Sedigh Marvasti, deputy for education at the Iranian Epilepsy…
The biggest shelter for homeless in Tehran called ‘Khavaran’ has a capacity to house 600 people, but with the onset of cold weather, the shelter has admitted more than 1,100 homeless people.
Globally, the prevalence of learning disabilities is estimated to range from 1% to 30% of all school-age children; however the figure is 20% in Iran, said Dr. Peiman Hassani Abharian, head of the…
The University of Tehran signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sultan Qaboos University of Oman on Tuesday for exchange of seismic data online.
As part of a national campaign to raise awareness on healthy eating, ‘nutrition counseling buses’ in Tehran are stationed at a number of main intersections in the metropolis of 12 million until…
Egypt hopes its tourist sector will do better in 2017 after a disappointing 2016, but the sector needs an influx of Russian tourists for a noticeable boost. Russia suspended flights to and from…
Tehran Province's chief tourism official has thrown his support behind a plan by Tehran Municipality to form a tourism organization.
The municipality intends to elevate the status of its…
AirAsia X, the long-haul low-cost arm of budget carrier AirAsia, is adding more flights to Tehran from Kuala Lumpur six months after resuming its flight to the capital of Iran.
Arik De, the…
The New Year nightclub shooting in Istanbul is yet another major blow to Turkey’s tourism sector, which was already reeling from a series of terrorist attacks over the past year.
The number…
Efforts on returning Iran's centuries-old stone tablets will soon pay off, an official at Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization said.
People who consistently smoked an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had a 64% higher risk of earlier death than the never smokers, and those who smoked between one and…
Iran’s population reached 80.4 million at the end of the seven months of the current fiscal year that started in March 2016. The population growth rate that was 3.7% in 1980 decreased to 1.4% in…
Since the beginning of the current year that ends in March, 500,000 drivers were slapped with fines for driving vehicles without technical inspection labels, said Brigadier General Mohammad Reza…
A young Iranian conscript, Muhammad Baakhtar, lost one of his legs in a landmine explosion while trying to save a dog that was trapped in a barbed wire fence at his garrison.
Baakhtar, 19,…
