The ‘loving touch’ pilot plan is one way to compensate for the shortage of staff at child welfare centers, said Habibollah Masoudi Farid, deputy of social affairs at the State Welfare Organization…
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In the past two years, more than 50,000 students who had dropped out of primary school were identified and sent back to schools, said Muhammad Dimevar, deputy for primary education at the…
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Vladimir Fortov, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on Saturday that Russia “clearly isn’t managing” to stay ahead of the explosive growth in science around the world. Measured…
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An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale hit the region of Doborji in Fars Province in southern Iran, on Saturday morning, the Seismological Center of Fars Province affiliated to the…
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Nearly 80% of all colds are viral, and no antibiotics should be used to treat them, said Dr. Kheirollah Gholami, the head of pharmacies affiliated to the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. “…
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An additional 120,000 nurses are required to meet the demand in hospitals across the country, said Mohammad Mirza Beigi, deputy director of nursing services at the Health Ministry. “At present,…
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Making water available in school cafeterias may have played a role in decreases in students’ body mass indexes (BMIs), researchers found when reviewing the effects of a test program in New York.…
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Indian Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, referred to women and children’s rights as an appropriate platform for discussion between the Islamic Republic and India, in…
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Some kinds of debt, such as home mortgages and education loans, are linked to better child wellbeing while unsecured debt like credit card balances and overdue medical bills are tied to increasing…
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Nearly 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa last year, officials said Thursday, a slight decrease on 2014, but another year of carnage fuelled by Asian-led demand for their horn.…
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A tree frog only seen once in the 1870s has been found again -- in large numbers and thriving — in the hilly forests of northeastern India.
British naturalist T.C. Jerdon visited Darjeeling…
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Iran and Pakistan are set to join forces to protect the fragile ecosystem of Gwadar Bay, located in the Gulf of Oman on the maritime border of the two states.
The International Union for…
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Barely 10% of Iran’s timber demand is supplied from internal forests, which is the lowest level it has ever been, according to a senior official.
About 76% of wood needs are met by tree…
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A massive snowstorm that has already turned deadly churned up the US East Coast on Friday, forecast to transform into an angry blizzard that could bury the nation’s capital under more than 2 feet…
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Nearly 200 hectares of pristine forest have burned in the past two weeks in Gilan Province due to negligence.
Provincial officials say careless campers who failed to properly extinguish…
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Scientists are developing a rapid blood test that can determine whether a respiratory illness is caused by infection from a virus or bacteria so that antibiotics can be more precisely prescribed…
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The post-sanctions landscape has opened new horizons for the country, said Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi on Wednesday.
“It will facilitate entry of the private sector to various…
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Overall, mortality rates in patients admitted to adult ICUs in Sweden is less than 10%, Dr. Fernando Suarez-Sipman, an intensive care specialist in Sweden said at the third International…
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The first conference on stem therapy in ophthalmology was held at Tehran’s Farabi Eye Hospital, on Friday. “One reason that stem cells are important is because they can be used for regenerating…
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A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, officials said Thursday, the second since west Africa celebrated the end of the epidemic last week.
The fresh outbreak has prompted…
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Iran is planning to produce 10 million units of blood packs on par with European Union (EU) standards as per an agreement signed with Macopharma Co., a French blood transfusion company.
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The first round of an international conference on ‘Cyberspace and Lifestyles’ was held at the International Studies Department of Tehran University on Wednesday.
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Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Iran’s University of Science and Culture (USC) have agreed to establish academic and research cooperation. Both universities signed a Memorandum of…
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Significant measures will be taken to turn Iran into a radiopharmaceutical manufacturing hub in the region in the post-sanctions era, said Ali Akbar Salehi, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization…
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A joint Iranian-Japanese rural tourism project began on Thursday in Rasht County, Gilan Province.
The project, fully funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency, aims to set up a…
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