The head of the environmental monitoring office at the Department of Environment (DoE) announced that the number of air monitoring devices in Ahvaz city in the current calendar year (started March…
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Vision screening of children will be conducted in all permanent and mobile stations across the country, said Minoo Rafiei, director general of screening at the State Welfare Organization (SWO). At…
The National Research Institute of Herbal Medicine will be established by the National Council for Science and Technology Development of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and Traditional Medicine,…
The 5th scientific award of Dr. Kardan will be presented in a ceremony to be held at the University of Tehran on December 5.
The Nobel Prize is nice, but in terms of sheer dollars, the ‘Breakthrough Prize’ is nicer.
A cool $1.9 million nicer!
Started in 2012 by Silicon Valley’s crème de la crème…
The vice-president for Women and Family Affairs said approaching the issue of hijab with “coercion and the imposition of restrictions” is not effective in promoting “modesty” in society.
O n the sidelines of a meeting with scientific-medical committees, Ali Rabeie, minister of cooperatives, labor, and social affairs, stated that policy making and cooperation with scientific-…
Studies conducted by the Iranian Behavioral Science Foundation indicate that the ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ is 9 times more prevalent in women.
The study on a sample group of 6,750 people,…
The city air is at the moment not healthy for the “at risk groups” and the air quality index (AQI) of fine particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter has increased to 114 in number. The…
A team of 30 physicians who specialize in internal medicine, infectious diseases, gynecology, paramedical medicine and blood transfusion called ‘Health and Hope’ visited Lorestan Province to…
United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announced the top 50 countries in terms of their tourism attractions. By attracting 4.7 million foreign tourists, Iran ranked 48th in 2013 for…
Iran launched its first touristic submarine in Kish island, Persian Gulf, Fars News reported. The undersea vehicle was made by Iranian experts of Malek-Ashtar University of Technology (MUT) during…
The National Organization for Civil Registration (NOCR) and the State Organization for Registration of Deeds and Properties have launched a joint study “to find the main reasons for the increasing…
A professor of pharmacology at Shahid Beheshti Medical Sciences University said aluminium phosphide (or locally known as ‘rice tablet’), and carbon monoxide poisoning are the two top common causes…
A man named Peter Hubbard has voluntarily got himself injected with the deadly Ebola virus in a bid to help the doctors find a cure.
An Iranian knowledge-based company has produced ‘nano-organic’ fertilizer which “can improve the flavor of fruits and vegetables.”
There are no exact statistics as to how many people currently suffer from rare diseases in Iran and reliable data must be produced under the supervision of the ministry of health, Hamed Asghari,…
Women in Australia are dying unnecessarily of ovarian cancer because of a lack of research into the disease, campaigners say.
The eighth most common cancer in Australian women kills about 1…
Hydrometric instruments will be installed to help provide data to determine the ecological needs of the Zayandehrud River, in other words the river’s water rights. The instruments will also…
The managing director of Tehran Municipality’s Parks and Green Spaces said several measures have been undertaken for the conservation and management of trees on Vali-e-Asr Street.
There were 3.47 members on an average per family in Iranian households last calendar year (ended March 20), the Central Bank of Iran reported.
Mahmoud Haji Babaei, a member of Iran’s Inventors Association has developed “a detailed plan for production of a screen to protect against X-rays.” The protective cover immunizes physicians…
Birds have started migrating to the Central Province waterlands, IRNA reported. Every year, with gradual drop in autumn temperatures, the Central Province welcomes more than a hundred species of…
The recent rainfall has been very satisfactory, but this week there will be no precipitation; therefore “we will face air pollution and temperature inversion,” said Majid Azadi, head of Tehran’s…
A memorandum of cooperation was signed on November 2 between the University of Brazil and Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Prof. Carlos Tomaz, head of the Department of Physiological…
