The International Air Transport Association has revised its global airline industry profit forecast for 2017 upwards by 5.4% to a net profit of $31.4 billion, citing a stronger than expected world…
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Greek Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura said Greece aims to attract between 500,000-600,000 Chinese tourists each year for the next two years. Kountoura noted that the number of Chinese tourists to…
Qatar Airways has begun using Iranian airspace following the surprise fallout between Doha and a number of Middle Eastern countries.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the…
New genetic screening programs for expectant mothers in different age groups have been developed as part of the 2014 Health Reform Plan, and the mandatory services will be provided soon by both…
Even in the hardest of times, laughter has a steadfast ability to bring people together. A new study reveals how laughter affects the brain, which may help to explain why having a giggle plays…
Concurrent with the upcoming pediatrics conference in October, a screening system for diseases will be unveiled at the Children’s Medical Center in Tehran.
The system is capable of…
The European Physical Journal E Soft Matter and Biological Physics (EPJE) has awarded Iranian physicist Ramin Golestanian the 2017 EPJE Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize.
There are 2,290 medical emergency stations across the country at present, of which one-third function in make-shift arrangements, said Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Emergency Medical…
Norway’s Minister of Education and Research, Torbjorn Roe Isaksen, in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Hassan Habibollah Zadeh on Thursday, conveyed readiness to expand scientific and…
Seven new subway stations located on 22km of Metro Line 7 will be inaugurated next week, said Maziar Hosseini, deputy mayor for transportation on Monday.
A recent study conducted by Tehran University of Medical Sciences indicates that the average rate of antibiotic prescription by physicians in Tehran Province has decreased from 39% in 2013 to 34%…
Scientists have uncovered a shocking new threat to the health of the Great Barrier Reef in the form of human medications and pesticides found in sea turtles.
A team led by the University of…
Plans to restore Anzali Wetland in Gilan Province are progressing well and will help remove the lagoon from the Montreux Record—a register of endangered wetlands, according to an environment…
A new, as yet unpublished research by the Wildlife Justice Commission shows that the price of raw ivory in Asia has fallen dramatically since the Chinese government announced plans to ban its…
A report by SOS Mata Atlantica and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais shows that between 2015 and 2016, more than 29,000 hectares of native forests were lost, marking a 57.7% increase…
Iran's top environment official believes the historic Paris Agreement on combating climate change "will not fall apart" after US President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the accord.
Tehran and Baghdad signed an accord on Thursday to set up a joint center to combat dust storms in Iraq, less than two months after reaching a verbal agreement.
The agreement was signed in…
Researchers have found that drinking just one cup of coffee per day could cut the risk of hepatocellular cancer - the most common form of liver cancer - by a fifth.
Nearly 4% of motorists involved in traffic accidents in the previous calendar year (ended in March) were new drivers, according to the head of legal department at the Traffic Police.
“Last…
More than 23% of people between the ages 15 and 64 suffer from some kind of psychological problems, said Anoushiravan Mohseni Bandpei, head of the State Welfare Organization (SWO), on the…
In the past few days, the temperature has reached 56 degrees Celsius in some counties across the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province including Rask, Sarbaz, Nikshahr, Qasr-e Qand, Kenarak,…
The first phase of evaluation of hospitals in the country for the purpose of validation has been completed, and the hospitals will be given accreditation certificates after the information…
More than 2,230 billion rials ($55 million) is required to release 15,000 people languishing in jails for “unintentional offences,” said Asghar Jahangir, head of Iran Prisons Organization (…
Iranian nephrologist and a board member of Iran University of Medical Sciences Dr. Shahrzad Osareh, was selected as the only representative of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) from…
Two police officers were wounded in an exchange of fire with members of a drug gang in Qasr-e-Qand County in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan on Tuesday evening, said provincial…
