The pilot program for colorectal cancer screening is underway in Deyr County, Bushehr Province, said Adel Moqaddas, head of the county’s Health and Treatment Office.
“The screening services…
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The Department of Environment has begun investigating reports that one of its local offices covered up the death of a young Persian leopard.
Morteza Farid, the head of DOE's Complaint and…
The first field campaign surveying Papua New Guinea's lush primary forests from the coast to clouds has revealed high mountain tops may house the largest trees recorded globally at such extreme…
The mushrooming of high-rises around Tehran has cost the city its clean air and accelerated the disappearance of green spaces, according to an official at the Ministry of Roads and Urban…
Some of the world's most eminent economists have warned carbon prices will have to jump dramatically if the planet were to avoid dangerous levels of global warming.
An explosion rocked Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group's new steel plant in Vietnam late on Tuesday, a day after it resumed test operations for the first time since causing one of the…
Over 25% of drinking water are wasted in Shiraz, Fars Province, due to its dilapidated and inefficient water network, the chief executive of the provincial Water and Sewage Company said.
Delegates at the 70th World Health Assembly (May 22-31) endorsed on May 29 a global action plan on the public health response to dementia (2017-2025), and committed to develop and implement…
Iran is a leading country in the region in production of biotech drugs, said Mostafa Qanei, secretary of the Biotechnology Development Headquarters, on Monday.
There are currently 146…
The amount of time spent by Iranian users on social media is less than the global average, but Iranians spend more time on leisure activities online compared with the rest of the world, said…
The Majlis Health Commission held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in the country, said Mohammad Naeem Aminfar, its spokesperson.…
From among 12 articles submitted by Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization to the secretariat of the 21st Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (2017) in Toronto, 11…
More than 21% of students in the country are overweight or obese, said Mehrzad Hamidi, physical education and health deputy at the Education Ministry. “Obesity at young age will increase…
Retirement of 640,000 personnel at the Education Ministry by 2025-2026, among whom more than 75% are teachers, is the primary concern of the ministry since new teachers and staff to replace them…
Genetic samples of 12,000 habitual offenders repeatedly convicted for crimes, have been collected so far and stored in a database at the Iranian Genetic Bank, said Seyed Ahmad Shojaei, head of…
Most workers can identify with either being one or the other: Finding themselves arriving bright, early and ready for work but then crashing around 3pm and struggling to concentrate or a night owl…
A global IT glitch that leaves thousands of angry passengers stranded does not come cheap.
That’s the reality British Airways’ parent company International Consolidated Airlines IAG will…
Kashan National Museum will be closed until June 22 for restoration. One of the city's top attractions, the museum in Kashan, Isfahan Province, will undergo restoration for three weeks, the local…
The construction of two hotels will be complete by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2018) in Aras Free Trade Zone.
Yousef Dadashzadeh, deputy for tourism at the Aras Free…
Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization will hold talks with Asia's top cruise tour conductors to include Iran on their itineraries.
US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said he may ban laptop computers in the cabins of all international flights into and out of the US amid continuing terrorist threats to bring down…
Jamaican Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett said tourism remains the most vital source of earnings and economic activity for the majority of Caribbean islands, with region-wide revenues estimated…
During the trial run of the scheme called ‘Khadem’ implemented last year by Iran’s Red Crescent Society, 250,000 families received education on emergency situations.
The World Health Organization confirmed on Sunday that cholera deaths in Yemen had risen to 473, a month after the epidemic resurged. Although the epidemic had shown signs of slowing, it has again…
For women, focusing on exercise that makes them happy, rather than on intensity, may be key to maintaining motivation for physical activity, concludes a new study published in the journal BMC…
