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Popular video games might make young people more likely to smoke or drink, a new study has asserted.

Another strong quake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale rattled Zarand city in Kerman Province on Friday, October 29, at 5:32 pm local time, leaving 10 people injured. They were transferred to…

Widespread snowfall is forecast across seven provinces of West Azarbaijan, East Azarbaijan, Alborz, Qazvin, Zanjan, Semnan, and Tehran’s mountain peaks on Monday, said Mohammad Asghari, an expert…

A pediatric cardiovascular surgery team comprising specialists from the US and Europe will perform operations on sick children at one of the Social Security Organization’s hospitals in Tehran. “…

Children under six years of age who suffer from malnutrition are taken in by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and receive appropriate food baskets and nutritional care.

An estimated 5,500 Iranians die each year due to poisoning as per data from Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization. The majority are victims of narcotics abuse followed by overdose of medicine and…

Iran ranked 1st in the Middle East and 7th in the world in nanotechnology according to Elsevier’s Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, said Chancellor of…

Knowing a person’s type of gene mutations is highly instrumental in treating cancer, said executive secretary of the 15th National Congress of Medical Oncology and Hematology. “Cancer treatment…

On the eve of World Stroke Day, congregants at Tehran’s Friday Prayers were offered free tests for blood sugar and blood pressure. Observed on October 29 every year, the day underscores the…

In a meeting between Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi and Chairman of People’s National Assembly of Algeria, Mohamed Larbi Ould Khalifa, on Friday in Algiers, the two sides reviewed the…

Much attention has been paid over the past decades to air pollution and problems arising from it, but the disturbing noise in Tehran’s streets that has reached an all-time high in recent years and…

Among the many health benefits of getting teeth regularly checked is less pneumonia, suggests new research to be presented at IDWeek 2016, a scientific conference on infectious diseases held…

Official talks on visa-free travel between Iran and Russia for groups will begin next month, according to Russia's Federal Agency for Tourism.

Quoting a statement published on the agency's…

According to figures released on Wednesday, tourism has overtaken dairy as New Zealand's top earner of overseas dollars. And tourism officials say the success of the fantasy movie trilogy "The…

The former British Consulate in the city of Kerman in Kerman Province, which is under restoration to be repurposed into an oil museum, will open to public in March 2017, in time for the two-week…

New research from global travel technology company, Sabre Corporation, has found that travelers would drop a hundred dollar bill to make their travel a little more "about me".

Sabre…

Following the resignation of Sports and Youth Minister Mahmoud Goudarzi last week, Masoud Soltanifar, the head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, was nominated by…

In his recent visit to Zaveh County in Khorasan Razavi Province, Professor Yoshiharu Fujii of Japan’s Tokyo University, a well-known allelopathy researcher, expressed readiness to do more research…

Nearly 5,000 villages will be connected to the internet within the next month and start receiving online medical services.

“Among the 18,000 villages in the country, about 5,000 still do…

Critical shortage in the health workforce and inequitable geographical distribution of physicians pose major challenges to achieve health targets set in the national development goals.

Following the earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale in Zarand city, Kerman Province on October 20, twenty aftershocks have rattled the region in the past week with the last 2-Richter…

Iranian researchers at the University of Tehran have developed a kind of packaging that is edible in addition to being highly biodegradable. “Synthetic biofilms are one of the most important…

The World Health Organization’s cancer agency - which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens - advised academic experts on one of its review panels not to disclose documents they…

Teaming up with the International Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the 6th round of the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICNN) commenced Wednesday at Kharazmi…

The rate of stunting in children under the age of five has reduced to 7% currently from around 26% in 1990, said Ahmad Meydari, social welfare deputy at the Ministry of Labor, Cooperatives and…