New specialty wards for MRI, ICU, and neurosurgery were opened at Loghman-e-Hakim Hospital in Tehran on Monday in the presence of Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi. Around 21.5…
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Currently, 60,000 trained rescuers provide aid and relief services to people across the country in times of crises. “We have planned to train 50,000 more personnel by the end of the fiscal year in…
Smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year, and will kill one third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a study by the World Health Organization and the US…
Developing Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf is one of the country's strategic plans to help promote tourism and jumpstart the local economy, according to an official at Iran's Cultural Heritage…
Management and Planning Organization has allocated 100 billion rials ($2.5 million at market exchange rate) for tourism projects in Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad Province, a local official said.
International travelers in Europe could soon be forced to buy tickets more than 12 hours in advance in a new security crackdown.
The plan is already being taken seriously in Belgium, which…
Turkey’s economy is suffering in the face of a string of extremist attacks—including the massacre of New Year’s revelers, most of them foreigners—and insecurity following the failed coup in July…
The Monitoring and Assessment of Tourism Services Office at Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization said it has received no official reports on the alleged illegal…
Parliament has passed a bill that aims to ban physicians and medical specialists from working two jobs, or in other words, working in both the private and public sector.
Iran is one of the top 20 consumers of medicine in the world, said Paria Ataei, technical expert at the Food and Drug Office, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. “Iranians’ consumption of…
A simple blood test that can tell how well a person is likely to age is on the horizon after scientists cracked blood ‘signature’ patterns which predict ill health. The breakthrough means doctors…
A 30-year-old man lost his life after being struck by a subway train at Tehran’s Daneshgah Sharif Metro Station on Metro Line 2, Sunday, at 8:15 am. The victim had crossed the platform’s…
Seventy billion rials ($1.8 million) has been allocated for drug prevention programs among school students for the current fiscal year (ends March 20), said Hamid Sarami, deputy for research and…
Over 20,000 children have been examined under the nationwide autism screening project, according to Hussein Nahvinejad, head of the Rehabilitation Services Department at the State Welfare…
Iranian researcher Mehdi Pirouz and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston have recently discovered that dysfunctional RNA molecules in cells are associated with Perlman syndrome and…
As part of a plan to improve dental care services among young people, the Imam Ali (AS) children’s dental clinic in Birjand, South Khorasan Province, was inaugurated last week.
Under a new bill passed by the Majlis (parliament) on Saturday, in-home nursing care provided by registered nurses is now recognized as official with all the benefits of full-time employment.
Cuba’s Tourism Ministry reported 4 million visitors in 2016, a 13% increase from 2015.
The biggest increase in visitors came from the United States, which should come as no surprise.
The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group (also known as ISIS or Daesh) no longer occupies the archeological site of Nimrud, Iraq, but the city and its treasures remain in danger as looters…
Iran’s coastal regions have the potential to attract 3 million foreign visitors a year, says an official at the Department of Environment.
According to Parvin Farshchi, deputy for marine…
People who donate a book to the only public library of Deh Kheir Village, in southern Tehran Province, will be given a free ticket to tour the Iranian capital Tehran. Rajabali Khosroabadi, the…
The parliament's tourism and cultural heritage group has proposed the formation of a guild for investors participating in restoration of historical buildings.
Jabbar Kouchakizadeh, a…
Only time will tell how US president-elect Donald Trump’s policies will affect the daily lives of Americans. What we can see immediately, however, is how his policies are affecting certain aspects…
Previous studies have linked a high consumption of grilled, barbecued, or smoked meats with an increased risk of breast cancer. Now, a new study finds that it may also increase the risk of all-…
The recent broadcast of an episode on promotion of organ donation and its importance on a popular primetime TV reality show, created a wave of response with volunteers signing up for organ…
