Healthcare

China's Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua has called on the Islamic Republic not to place unnecessary restrictions on the Chinese passengers and avoid going over the limits set by the World Health Organization in the wake of outbreak of a novel coronavirus.

Fears over the possible spread of the coronavirus has cancelled New Year celebrations by Chinese nationals in Iran.

Iranian scientists at the Golestan Province Science and Technology Park have for the first time produced intensive liquid capsules to relieve abdominal pains.

Iran’s Health Minister Saeid Namaki says the country is set to send a plane with full quarantine facilities to bring back 70 Iranian citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the heart of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Iran’s Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei has outlined preventive measures to contain the possible spread of the coronavirus.

Iranian Minister of Health Saeed Namaki says Iran has temporarily halted all flights to and from China as the novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, spreads across the country and the rest of the world.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has unveiled plans to carry the Iranian nationals out of China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of outbreak of a novel coronavirus.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has given a description of the precautionary measures the Foreign Ministry has taken in response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the world.

An Iranian Health Ministry official says there are no confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the country, noting that all passengers arriving from China are being screened upon entry.

A group of Iranian researchers have discovered that artificial intelligence can detect several types of cancer in one operating tissue.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif las hailed China for its timely and decisive action in fighting a new strain of coronavirus, and wished the Chinese people a healthy and peaceful new year.

The first phase of Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis transplant has been carried successfully at Farabi Hospital of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Iran has turned into one of the few countries in the world that can produce dressings resembling human skin to a great extent.

A group of Iranian researchers have developed an electronic autopsy table and software.

Iranian researchers have unveiled a domestically-produced medicine for ALS patients or those suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Iran has developed a domestic pedalling neural prosthesis system for those suffering from spinal cord injuries.

The world’s third menstrual blood stem cells bank has opened at Avicenna Infertility Centre in Iran.

Iranian researchers have manufactured a homegrown micromanipulator, a device used to control precise movements in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) which is applied to infertility treatment procedures.

The Austrian journal EuroPages in a report has expressed wonder that Iranian scientists have been able to make products that compete with those of large companies from Germany, South Korea, the United States and Britain and take their market share worldwide.

A baby girl has been born in the Iranian city of Isfahan thirteen years after being frozen. The child is the longest known frozen human embryo that has been delivered successfully in the West Asia region.

Twenty knowledge-based companies in Iran are exporting a wide range of laboratory equipment to China, South Korea, Malaysia, Ecuador, Cuba, and some European countries.

A group of Iranian scientists at the Royan Research Institute and Iran University of Medical Sciences have designed a method that uses stem cells to treat liver diseases.

An Iranian professor of biology has been awarded the Mustafa Prize for introducing a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease with stem cells.

An Iranian knowledge-based company has managed to develop an electric knife for delicate surgeries. Electrosurgical tools are widely used to make incisions and can prevent bleeding during surgery.

Iranian physicians have for the first time performed a split-liver transplantation surgery, dividing a single donor liver between a pediatric and an adult patient.