A campaign to raise awareness about cancer is to be launched on World Cancer Day on February 4, 2015.
Dr. Ali Motlagh, head of Cancer Office at the ministry of health told ISNA the…
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Vice-President for Women Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi said women’s economic contribution of household work will be taken into national accounts. “We have placed this task on the agenda and we…
Charity donators and benefactors have contributed to the establishment of more than 140,000 classrooms across the country, Mohammad Reza Hafezi, director of Tehran Charity School Organization…
The annual per capita consumption of seafood in Iran is 8.5 kilograms while global per capita fish consumption is more than 19 kilograms per person, Mehr News Agency quoted Mohammad Pourkazemi,…
The culture and counseling deputy at the ministry of education announced that school counselors will be graded according to their qualification. Hamid Reza Kaffash quoted by ISNA said an exam will…
During the first 6 months of the current Iranian year (started March 21), 1.08 million visas were issued to Iraqi visitors. By the end of the year, 2 million Iraqis are estimated to enter Iran,…
North Korea is launching a web site to attract tourists. Different areas of the site, dprktoday.com, highlight a variety of North Korea’s attractions, from a pyramid-themed water park to…
Due to the outbreak of avian flu in Russia and the possibility of transmission by migratory birds, bird hunting in Golestan Province has been banned, said Esmaeil Mohajer, head of the…
The pilot plan for electronic prescribing will begin this year and hemophilia patients will be among the first to benefit from the plan, said Akbar Abdollahi, deputy for policy and regulation at…
A number of camera traps have been placed in each of the cheetah habitats in the country for an overall observation of the species, Morteza Eslami, director of the Iranian Cheetah Society…
The budget resources for the Health Reform Plan will be obtained from the targeted subsidy plan, value added tax, and the annual budgetary allocations to the health ministry, deputy of the Majlis…
Smoking is widely recognized as one of the biggest risk factors for cancer. A new study has now demonstrated that smoking is associated with the loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells,…
With the introduction of new health measures, the upcoming Iranian calendar year (starting March 21, 2015) will be a landmark in health care at the Red Crescent, said Dr. Seyyed Reza Raees Karami…
Housing is one of the essential prerequisites for a young couple to get married and start a family, say experts. But the unaffordable prices in real estate are demoralizing and reduce the desire…
Currently, ninety percent of the Islamic Azad University (IAU) expenditure is covered through tuition fees paid by students, Ali Asgari, parliamentary deputy of the IAU said.
The Secretary General of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Elhadj As Sy will soon visit Iran “to assess and observe the capabilities of the Iranian Red…
The allocation for sports development for the next calendar year (starting March 21, 2015) has been increased to $215 million, said Seyyed Manaf Hashemi, deputy minister of sports and youth…
Names of 6 Iranians are included in the list of 663 hopefuls from around the world to travel to Mars as announced in the website of Mars One Organization at http://www.mars-one.com.
In the presence of head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masud Soltanifar, the 5-star botanic hotel of Gorgan, capital of Golestan Province was inaugurated, Fars…
The fortress of Samouran, dating back to the period of Seljuk dynasty (11th-12th Centuries), on a hill in a village in Anbarabad county, Kerman Province was inscribed on the list of National…
Achieving gender equality in economic activities requires “positive discrimination in favor of women,” says the president’s legal research deputy Mohsen Ghasemi.
It’s been a while now that the poverty line has been lost in the country; it means there is no official report to tell the people whether they live above the poverty line with their current income…
Iran’s largest river and the only navigable waterway that once boasted of being one of the cleanest rivers in the world is now ravaged by home sewage and industrial and agricultural waste. Waste…
A new study suggests that the later your bed time the more likely you are to have negative thoughts during the day. More so the study actually suggests that a regular sleep pattern — with a…
At present, traffic accidents are the most common cause of children’s death in the country, IRNA quoted Hamed Barakati, Head of the department of children’s health, ministry of health and medical…
