Healthcare

Iran’s Health officials say the number of people who have lost their lives due to the deadly coronavirus has reached four. 

A new decree issued by Iran’s Election Headquarters has obviated the need for fingerprints on the ballot papers in the ongoing elections as part of preventive measures to avoid coronavirus in the country.

An ad hoc headquarters has been set up at the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education to combat the possible spread of the coronavirus, government spokesman Ali Rabiei said.

An Iranian health authority has confirmed on Thursday three new cases of the new coronavirus in the cities of Qom and Arak.

On behalf of Iranian people, the Municipality of Tehran has lit up the capital’s iconic Azadi Tower with messages of sympathy with the Chinese nation in their fight against Coronavirus.

Iran’s Health Ministry says two people in the city of Qom have died of the novel coronavirus, in the first cases tested positive in Iran.

Iranian authorities have ended a 14-day quarantine for dozens of students who had been flown back home from central China over fears they might contract coronavirus.

Researchers at an Iranian knowledge-based company have made a temporary eye band aid that can be used in eye trauma to prevent blindness in less than a minute.

A knowledge-based Iranian company has produced an anti-cancer nano-medicine which is being exported to a number of foreign countries.

A group of Iranian researchers have, for the first time in the world, introduced a new test to diagnose the droopy tear glands condition.

An Iranian Knowledge-based company, which is a member of the Iranian Consortium of Dialysis or the ICD Group, has been able to manufacture machinery and products used for dialysis patients at a much lower cost than foreign samples.

While a novel respiratory virus originating from China’s Wuhan has endangered the lives of people across the globe, many countries in the world have found themselves in the grip of a nastier Coronavirus-sparked epidemic, namely racism.

A couple of Iranian students recently evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus, have talked about the horrible days they spent in the city from the outbreak of the disease to their repatriation.

More than 2,300 medical and health projects will come on stream across Iran in celebration of the 41st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

Iranian researchers are investigating the mechanical-biological effects of bone marrow progenitor cells on the production of bone-substituting biomaterials.

An Iranian knowledge-based company has developed a homegrown flu vaccine which is going to enter the market in summer 2020.

Iranian Health Minister Saeid Namaki has given assurances that there have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Iran so far.

Iranian scientists have built a 3D scanner that can capture detailed images of different parts of the human body in a few seconds.

The latest findings by researchers at Tehran University of Medical Sciences confirm that decreased sense of smell is one of the symptoms of dementia and that olfactory testing can be effective in early detection of the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

A Mahan Air flight on Wednesday evacuated dozens of Iranian citizens, along with a number of Iraqis, Syrians and Lebanese nationals, from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak of novel coronavirus.

A scientific meeting entitled Coronavirus was recently held at Tehran’s Tarbiat Modarres University.

Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri says the Americans are lying that they have put no restrictions on drugs and food import for the Islamic Republic.

The Iranian foreign minister has decried the United States for cashing in on the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, saying Beijing has had a more successful performance in containing the virus compared with that of the US in the 2009 H1N1 epidemic.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi have discussed the latest efforts to contain the novel coronavirus.

Switzerland’s Ambassador to Iran says 180,000 medical shipments required for organ transplant has arrived in Iran.