Educating and informing families on the traditional and new forms of illicit drugs and their consequences is the best approach to fight the scourge, said Hamid Yazdanpanah, a senior official at…
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The share of domestically produced drugs in the pharmaceutical market has increased to 67% this year, up from 58% in 2013 when the Rouhani government took office, said Health Minister Hassan…
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To promote the tourist attractions and investment opportunities of Qazvin Province, the provincial office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has organized a one-day…
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When heads of state from across Africa arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, next month for the African Union Summit, they will be among the first Africans issued the new electronic African Union passport.…
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Iran’s top tourism goal is to attract 20 million foreign visitors a year by 2025.
To realize that, Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, in cooperation with the…
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Recent dust storms across the western provinces of Iran have had a negative impact on tourism in Kermanshah Province, as the number of visitors to the province’s attractions has significantly…
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Philadelphia has introduced a levy on carbonated sugary drinks, despite a multimillion-dollar campaign by the beverage industry to block it. It will become the first major US city to implement a…
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Three international specialists are visiting Iran to provide advanced medical services to war veterans. Prof. Walter Stummer, neurosurgeon from Germany, Prof. Stephen Anthony Wolfe, plastic and…
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The project to produce avian influenza vaccine has been successful, and it will enter the domestic pharmaceutical market soon. “After several years of trials and efforts, the initial phase of…
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During the first month of the current year that started in March, around 121 women in Tehran made a request for medical termination of pregnancy (MTP). The figure represents an increase by 12%…
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Eight patients with brain tumors have received surgery free of charge at Razavi Specialized Hospital in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, said Dr Saeed Hashemzadeh, head of the hospital.
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Around 48% of people in Iran between the ages 15 and 64 have a BMI (Body Mass Index) over 25, which means roughly a little less than half of the country’s adolescent and adult population is…
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The gas pipeline blast in Shahran neighborhood of northwestern Tehran on Friday has left one person dead, said Tehran deputy governor Gholam-Hossein Aram.
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Wedding ceremonies, inside and outside of Iran, continue to be a multimillion-dollar industry, and in addition, a big hurdle in the way of matrimony, as young couples who are not affluent, often…
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Addressing environmental problems is one of Japan International Cooperation Agency’s priorities in Iran, according to the agency’s chief representative in Tehran.
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Shahid Salimi (Neka) Power Plant, which had been banned by the prosecutor of Neka County from burning mazut, has reportedly failed to comply with the court order and is using the highly-polluting…
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Failure to abide by the rules of the Department of Environment with regard to hazardous waste is considered a crime and legal action will be taken against the offending industries, an environment…
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A wildfire in southern California, USA, prompted mandatory evacuations on Friday in Santa Barbara County, as emergency workers struggled to contain the blaze, according to a county report. The…
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The Middle East has been the worst hit by significant rise in sand and dust storms, with major impacts on human health, United Nations scientists say.
Iran and Kuwait are the most affected…
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China ordered at least 255 Shanghai-based industrial facilities, including part of a major oil refinery operated by Sinopec Corp, to shut for 14 days to reduce pollution ahead of the G20 summit.…
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A huge fire in the early hours of Friday as a result of an explosion at a gas pipeline in northwest Tehran’s Shahran District was brought under control by the Fire Department and Emergency…
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The head of Social Emergencies Center at the State Welfare Organization has urged hospitals across the country not to release abused children and infants addicted to drugs from birth, into their…
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The Third Generation University plan was initiated by the Health Ministry to expand the functional areas of medical universities from merely conventional study and research to entrepreneurship and…
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A new study has found that our sense of smell may be just as reliable as sight when it comes to identifying a criminal. For example, if you got a whiff of a person’s body odor right as he ran up…
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A memorandum of understanding to start Persian language courses in Serbia’s Union Nikola Tesla University was signed in Tehran by Iran’s cultural attaché in Serbia Mohsen Soleimani and the Serbian…
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