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The law to increase paid maternity leave from 6 to 9 months for working women has been implemented in the health and education ministries, said Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, head of population, family…

New research suggests that drinking coffee may increase cardiovascular risk in young adults, HealthDay reported.

Italian researchers found that heavy coffee drinkers had a four-fold…

The Food and Drug Administration has been monitoring demand and consumption of dietary supplements over the past five years to promote healthy lifestyles, said Amir Hussein Jamshidi, director of…

The first pharmaceutical summer program, ‘Create Ideas, Generate Medicine,’ opened at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Fars Province on August 29.

“The program creates an innovative…

Young and veteran chemists were commended at the 18th Iranian Chemistry Congress that concluded at Semnan University in Semnan Province, on Tuesday. “As the university has over 1,200 students in…

Researchers at Tehran University of Medical Sciences have produced a type of nanocomposite to be used in treating damaged bones. Laboratory studies show that the nanocomposite can prevent…

A team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Dundee said in a written statement that they have discovered a type of protein which could be used to create ice cream…

Bilateral cooperation in sharing technical knowhow, conducting projects on greenhouse gases, developing herbal medicines and concentrates, and research on water management technologies, were…

Health officials in Sierra Leone on Sunday confirmed an Ebola death less than a week after the country’s last known patient was discharged from a hospital.

In spring, Caspian Sea registered an unprecedented 22-centimeter drop in water level, said an official at the Ministry of Energy.

Morteza Eftekhari, the head of Water Research Institute,…

The Department of Environment in Khuzestan Province has outlined the plan to revive the imperiled Shadegan Wetland, according to the head of the department, Ahmadreza Lahijanzadeh.

The…

The water use-to-availability ratio in the rural regions of East Azarbaijan Province is 2-to-1, meaning rural residents are using twice as much water available to them, according to the CEO of…

Mammoth dust storms rolled through the provinces of Alborz and Tehran late Monday, reducing visibility, breaking windows, bringing down trees and causing power outages in some regions.

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About 90% of all seabirds alive today have eaten plastic of some kind, scientists say.

Australian and British researchers say it demonstrates the urgent need for all nations to better…

Closed circuit TVs (CCTVs) have been installed at all police stations across the country to monitor the performance of policemen, said deputy police chief, Commander Masoud Monfared.

A new study says people in stressful marriages have “significantly higher” levels of the hormone that makes you hungry.

Varieties of one of the world’s most important staple crops have now been stored for posterity deep in the Arctic.

José Graziano da Silva, director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture…

Concurrent with the expansion of Tehran Metro Line 3, four new stations: Shahid Beheshti, Nobonyad, Shahid Zeinedin and Shahrak Ghaem, will commence operation in September, said Seyed Jafar…

Studies are underway to build 10 new satellite towns around Mashhad, capital of Khorasan Razavi Province. The plan is being perused by the Provincial Supreme Council and the new commission on…

Nearly 460 handmade carpet weavers and 63 craftsmen were covered by insurance of the Social Security Organization recently, said Sirous Nasiri, director general of insurance at the SSO. “Providing…

A number of recombinant drug products will be launched in the domestic market by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2016), said Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi. Such drugs…

Only a minute percentage (0.5 %) of complaints is related to online shopping websites which have e-commerce trust logos.

The figure shows that online services offered by such websites are…

A woman and three men died on Sunday after contracting the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) in Riyadh, bringing the total number of deaths to 507 since the outbreak of the disease in…

An interim secretariat on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was established at the State Welfare Organization, said Hossein Nahvinejad, deputy head of rehabilitation at…

Chinese tourists to a Swiss mountain resort are being invited to use separate trains following a spate of complaints by locals who were incensed and disgusted by their behavior.

The row is…