Healthcare

The record of enrolment for post-mortem organ donation cards was broken after the director of Iranian Association of Organ Donation participated in a popular TV show.

Iranian attaché in Austria announced that a Latin version of Kitab Al-Mansuri, a medical book by Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, the famous Iranian polymath of Middle Age, has been discovered in the European country’s National Library.

Iran intends to present its traditional medicine to the world by founding specialized health centres.

Iran’s Health Ministry says the country is a well-known medical tourism destination in the Middle East, but its great potentials have yet to be exploited.

Electromagnetic waves, including those transmitted in satellite jamming, can increase the risk of infertility, immune deficiency, and cancer, according to a study conducted in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.

An Iranian professor believes that Iranian-Islamic medicine offers a way to cure vitiligo, a condition Donald Trump is suffering from.

An Iranian transport official says the public buses in the Iranian capital are sanitized and disinfected on a daily basis.

By using music therapy, Iran’s State Welfare Organisation is developing the use of art therapy for the disabled throughout the country.

In a message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Hassan Rouhani, the President of Iran, called for increased measures to facilitate the lives of disabled people.

A senior Iranian official referred to the country’s great progress in the export of different types of medicine, and highlighted the government’s measures to help knowledge-based companies.

An investment group from South Korea has allocated $400m to building an international neuroscience hospital in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.

Iran’s Minister of Health has recently briefed the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the latest situation of social harms in Iran, describing it as painful yet treatable.

The body organs of a 7-year-old brain-dead boy saved the lives of three people in Iran.

An Iranian pilot cut the flight time by 20 minutes to help an injured Afghan immigrant regain the use of his hand, which had been cut off in an accident.

A cave has been discovered in Iran with a substance oozing out of its cracks and fractures. The substance is called Mummia and is said to have a lot of health benefits.

Iran’s Health Minister says the private sectors of Iran and Algeria have a good chance to further improve mutual cooperation.

An Iranian medical official said Yemeni people are in dire health situation and the Saudi-led coalition has blocked the path for Iranian doctors who want to help the war-hit people.

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Iran not only cultivates such unique crops as barberry and saffron and a copious amount of varied medicinal plants, but is also in the vanguard of rose essential oil extraction, which is worth around $18,000 per litre.

Iranian researchers at Gilan University of Medical Sciences have developed a device that can provide patients with injections from distance.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a proclamation sent to heads of Iran’s three branches of power outlined general policies on family, known as the cornerstone of the Islamic society.

Paul Bouvier, a senior Medical Advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), described the academic and administrative capabilities of the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran as unrivalled.

Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi announced that the country has started the exports of domestically-made radiopharmaceuticals to various countries, including some in Europe.

Thousands of Iranian doctors have been providing citizens of Tehran with free medical services on August 22, the National Doctors’ Day, which is annually marked on the birthday anniversary of renowned Iranian polymath and doctor Avicenna.

Scientific efforts by Iranian scholars in Pardis Technology Park paid off as they introduced MigriHeal which is said to be an absolute cure for migraine.