Healthcare

An Iranian lawmaker has stressed the importance of establishing a genetic data bank for prisoners.

Iran has signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on medical tourism with 32 countries in a specialized conference recently held in Tehran.

A seven-year-old Iranian cancer kid has achieved his dream of being a groom with the cooperation of a group of benefactors from Khuzestan province in southern Iran.

The food cooked in metal dishes are not totally healthy as they may release toxic materials.  Potteries, however, are healthy handicrafts in which one can keep foods and water for a long time.

A group of Iranian students at the Islamic Azad University have built a robot that can assist physically-disabled people, according to a university official.

An Iranian university professor has presented some Islamic remedies to restore youth to the skin.

Internationally-renowned Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has been hospitalized in the US for deteriorating health conditions caused by cancer recurrence.

Iran’s Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs Sorena Sattari deplored the US move to deny entry to and deport an Iranian cancer researcher and his family, saying such measures only cause frustration in the scientific community.

A group of researchers in an Iranian knowledge-based company have managed to produce a non-toxic rodenticide using nanotechnology. The product is currently available on the market.

One of the victims of a 2014 acid attack in Iran’s Isfahan, who was preparing to stand her last chance and undergo an extensive surgery in the US city of Boston, has expressed the hope to regain her sight and meet President Hassan Rouhani.

Iran’s Minister of Health and Medical Education, Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, has ordered officials to make arrangements for free treatment of a child boy, whose photo taken in the Parliament amid Tehran terrorist attacks grabbed the headlines across the world.

Iran’s Minister of Health and Medical Education says the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is now under control in the country.

Iraq’s health minister has thanked Tehran for meeting Baghdad’s needs in the health and medical treatment sectors in the earliest time.

An 86-year-old Iranian woman, who started painting all of a sudden two years ago, has put her paintings on display in an exhibition in the capital city of Tehran.

An Iranian health official attributed the cause of death of celebrated film director Abbas Kiarostami to “meningeal hemorrhage” due to a blood thinner medicine he was given when he was hospitalized in France.

Grocery markets in the Iranian capital are offering free fruit in baskets to the needy people and children, to both help poor citizens add fruit to their food basket and promote fruit consumption among kids.

An Iranian MP has praised a 25-percent decrease in imports of pharmaceuticals to Iran, saying the country should focus on expanding the export of its homegrown medicine by using the expertise of its elites.

At least 400 university students in central Iranian city of Yazd were food poisoned, with almost half of them hospitalized on Monday morning, an emergency official declared.

A group of university students formulated a scenario to boost the morale of a boy suffering from a serious condition and enable him to fight the disease.

The IRGC Quds Force Commander in a letter to Iran’s minister of health appreciated the ministry’s efforts to provide medical assistance for the fighters of the resistance front.

The most important way to control diabetes might be the diets a patient should follow. Here we will introduce two dishes that are both very delicious and appropriate for those suffering from diabetes.

One of the common concerns for parents with babies is nappy rash, a condition which leads to restlessness in infants.

Before the discovery of insulin and other medications that lower blood sugar levels, medicinal herbs and traditional methods were used to treat diabetics

Ginger, a healing plant used in medicine and cooking for centuries, is replete with vitamins A, C and E, and group B vitamins.

The bedsore mostly occurs in people who have to lie in bed in a fixed position for a long time without being able to change their position.