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  • Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi on Tuesday came down on the private sector for their lackadaisical interest in the national healthcare system.

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  • Population growth rate is below zero in the capital, while it is growing by 4.7% in the suburbs and outlying areas in Tehran Province, said Tehran Mayor Mohammad Qalibaf on Sunday. “Outlying areas…

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  • Iranian researchers have indigenized the Holter monitor, a battery-operated portable device that measures and records a patient’s heart’s activity (ECG), by using different software.

    “My…

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  • An outbreak of yellow fever that has killed hundreds of people in central Africa could spread across the world, an international children’s charity warned on Tuesday, even as a massive vaccination…

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  • The terrorist attacks of recent months and political upheavals have had a major effect on travel behavior, and the perceived level of threat is determining people’s holiday choices, according to a…

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  • Japan seems intent on cornering the market of robot hotels, with Henn-na Hotel set to open yet another location–this time near Tokyo’s Disney Resort.

    Quoting a report in the Japan-based…

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  • Demand for construction permits to build sea resorts in Gilan Province is growing, indicating that the marine tourism potential of Iran’s coastal regions has attracted the private sector.

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  • Regulations surrounding the carriage of lithium batteries, which have been implicated in several fires on board airliners, must be more strictly enforced, the International Air Transport…

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  • In order to ease into the resumption of tours to Turkey, Iranian travel agencies have announced reductions in capacity.

    Tour capacities have been cut by 50%, Econews.ir reported.

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  • Three marine tourism schemes along the banks of Karoun River in Khuzestan Province are complete and will open to the public next week, a senior official at Karun Development Organization has…

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  • There is no precise information on the prevalence and growth rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the country, said scientific secretary of the 17th International Congress of…

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  • A plan to use sniffer dogs trained to identify narcotics at the main railway station in downtown Tehran will soon be developed, said General Alireza Akbarshahi, railway police chief. “Using…

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  • Since its launch in June 2015, the first official matchmaking website ‘Hamsan,’ (Find Your Equal), in Iran has met with great enthusiasm. There are 11.2 million singles in the marriageable age…

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  • New research further supports the benefits of exercise for mental health, after finding aerobic physical activity could help treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.

    Researchers - including…

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  • The Imam Khomeini Relief Committee (IKRC) is executing a project that provides young people from the economically weaker sections the basic needs to marry and start a new life together.

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  • There are 450,000 blind and 90,000 visually impaired people at present in the country, said Dr Abbas Azimi, a board member of Iranian Optometric Association (IOA). Stating that cataract is one of…

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  • The bill to reduce working hours for “women under special circumstances”, the general outlines of which were passed in the Majlis in early February, has been revised after the Guardians Council…

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  • The Data Center of the Food and Drug Administration was inaugurated on Sunday in the presence of its head and Deputy Health Minister Rasoul Dinarvand, representatives from the Healthy Ministry,…

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  • To exert more control over their operations, the Department of Environment has instructed all zoos, bird gardens and animal care centers to bring their activities up to the national standards and…

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  • Jamaica’s Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Andrew Wheatley has welcomed the move by British billionaire and head of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, to acquire Blue Mountain…

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  • A forest fire broke out in Alvar-e Garmsiri District located in Jurvand Village, Khuzestan Province, on August 10, due to a family dispute, which took more than two days to extinguish.

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  • A group of environmental experts and academics have written an open letter to the country’s high-ranking officials urging them to scrap a contentious plan to transfer water from Caspian Sea in the…

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  • Hot and stagnant weather is making this summer one of the worst for smog in Southern California, USA. The area has not had so many bad air days or had these levels of ozone pollution since 2009,…

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  • The national childhood immunization program has played a significant role in the control, elimination and eradication of some major infectious diseases. But there are challenges as the program…

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  • All GM food products in the domestic market have been tested and approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and although genetically modified foods cause no known health problems, all the…

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