For the second time, Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization (IBTO) was selected as the World Health Organization’s representative in Eastern Mediterranean Region Office (EMRO) and cooperation in…
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A total of 500 summer camps have been set up across the country with educational programs that teach a variety of practical skills to high school students, said Qorbanali Afshani, director general…
A first-ever global study finds massive inequity of access to and quality of healthcare among and within countries, and concludes people are dying from causes with well-known treatments.
India is facing another record hot and potentially deadly summer. People living in underdeveloped parts of central India are most vulnerable to the health impacts of heat waves, a Heat…
People looking to lose weight should try to give meals their full attention rather than eat while doing something else, such as watching television or working. So suggests a new study that…
About 20% of married couples (or three million couples from the total 15 million couples in the country) suffer from some kind of infertility problem.
Bifurcation of the Ministry of Sports and Youths Affairs is on top of the next government’s agenda, said deputy minister Hamid Hassani. “Several steps have been taken to split youth affairs and…
World Thyroid Day on May 25, is dedicated to thyroid patients and to all those who are committed to the study and treatment of thyroid diseases worldwide.
So far, 360 rare blood types have been identified in the country besides the popular A, B and Rh. The project to identify rare blood types started 8 years ago, said Mostafa Moghaddam, head of the…
An earthquake measuring 4 degrees on the Richter scale jolted the outskirts of Bojnord, the capital of North Khorasan Province, early Wednesday.
According to the Geophysics Institute of…
The ‘traffic light’ tags will be put on all food products by the end of the administration’s first term in summer, said Rasoul Dinarvand, head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The…
In people's minds, Antarctica may appear as a bleak white landscape but scientists claim the continent is turning green because of global warming. A team of British researchers have tested three…
A budget of 10 billion rials ($260,000) has been earmarked for programs to promote awareness regarding environmental conservation in Gilan Province through mass and social media.
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Air pollution in the UK is more deadly than in about half of Western Europe, according to a major report by the World Health Organization on how people die.
The mortality rate attributed to…
Iran has launched a comprehensive monitoring and survey plan for the endangered Luristan newt, the first ever for the species, an official at the Department of Environment said on Saturday.
A new study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich shows that the most extreme rain events in most regions of…
Tehran's Biodiversity Museum will charge no admission fee on May 22 to commemorate the International Day for Biological Diversity. Officials hope the measure will help draw people to the museum.…
At present, 15% of Tehranis suffer from diabetes and an additional 15% are in the pre-diabetes stage, said Freydoun Azizi, head of Tehran’s Endocrine Research Center. “During the last two decades…
A report released by Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization (ILMO) last year (ended March 20) said that 1,645 people lost their lives in work-related accidents, of whom 1,623 were men and 22, women.…
Health screening of first grade students will begin from May 22 across the country and the information will be registered digitally. “Children will be screened for different health problems…
The 16th International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation in started on Tuesday in Shiraz, capital of the southern Fars Province, simultaneous with the 3rd International Congress…
Refugee students’ registration at Iranian schools will start from late June which is three months sooner than registration of Iranian students, said Seyed Ali Hosseini, deputy head of the…
The second eye bank opened in the shrine city of Mashhad, the capital of northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province, on Wednesday.
There should be one eye bank for every 20 million people in…
The number of physicians in remote regions increased by almost three times under the 2014 Health Reform Plan, according to the deputy for technical and planning affairs at the Health Ministry.…
Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from WHO show, highlighting improvements countries have made on collecting vital statistics and monitoring progress…
