Healthcare

Nowadays, with the adverse effects and harms of chemical drugs, people's interest in using herbal products, medicines and supplements has increased dramatically.

A group of researchers have, for the first time in Iran, developed a digital embryo detector that can record sounds, show coloured images and the pulse rate.

The Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has described Iran as the health leader in the Eastern Mediterranean region, saying the country has managed to improve the health of children and women and contain infectious diseases by promoting health services.

Pakistan’s Minister of National Health services says the country is seeking to further expand its cooperation with Iran in the medicinal and pharmaceutical fields.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has censured the US cruel sanctions against the Iranian nation saying that food and medicines embargo is another facet of this anti-human crime.

Iran’s neighbouring countries have turned into the new customers of the country’s laboratory services and the Islamic Republic is to facilitate the transfer of domestic laboratory services to these states.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has rejected speculations on the biological assassination of the country’s envoy to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi, who is currently hospitalized in the US for cancer.

Health ministers and high-level representatives of the 22 countries and territories of the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Region are to convene in Tehran on October 14-17.

The dangerous thing about hypertension or high blood pressure is that nearly 50% of people with the disease are unaware of their illness, so they do not take action to control the disease. This is why the disease is called the silent killer.

A call centre opened by an Iranian company monitors all the patients who have bought the “Migraine Cut” spray, a new medicine that can treat migraine headaches.

An Iranian official has unveiled plans for the production of 135 strategic pharmaceutical products inside the country with the help of local knowledge-based companies and start-ups.

Some 550 pharmaceutical companies and related industries from 30 countries will take part in Iran's 5th International Pharma Exhibition, known as Iran Pharma 2019.

A group of Iranian researchers have developed an artificial bladder and conduit for the first time in the country.

A knowledge-based Iranian company has managed to prevent the deaths of 7,000 patients via vacuum therapy and is currently designing a new variant of this product.

An Iranian knowledge-based company has developed a bio-printer which is capable of 3D printing of human bone.

An Irish team of tourism officials and tour organizers are on a tour of Iran to get more familiar with the tourism potential in the country, especially in the field of medical tourism.

Iran will achieve self-sufficiency and produce all the medicine it needs in three years’ time, says Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki.

Iran is exporting biopharmaceuticals to several regional and overseas countries, a government official has said, unveiling plans to increase export revenue generated by the knowledge-based companies.

An Iranian company has produced nano iron supplements which neither changes the colour of teeth, nor causes digestive problems for consumers.

Iranian researchers are trying to produce the human pancreas inside animals’ body first as part of a project to produce body organs.

An Iranian pharmaceutical company has launched a telephone system to counsel migraine patients free of charge.

The migraine at the end of the menstrual period could be due to low iron levels in the body, research studies show.

The Damask rose is one of the plants that have numerous properties used in different industries.

Medicinal herbs are an effective alternative for chemical drugs to prevent and reduce the effects of migraine.

Nearly a dozen countries are demanding to purchase medication for infantile respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) from Iran, an Iranian official says.