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Education

Expats Launch Online Portal on STD Education

Golrokh Askarieh -
A group of 40 Iranian physicians, nurses, and social activists living and studying abroad has recently launched an educational website (under a project named Ctrl+S) which provides information to Iranians in preventing and controlling sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and infections.
Custom

Austrian Students to Learn Traditional Medicine in Iran

Fatemeh Askarieh -
Austrian students will come to Iran in the next few weeks to learn about traditional medical practices at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, an official at the Traditional Medicine Faculty of the Ministry of Health said on Sunday May 29.
Healthcare

Iranian Machine for Treatment of Malignant Tumours Completing Final Tests

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Navid Nejatbakhsh, the chair of an Iranian knowledge-based company, announced that an Iranian radiotherapy or linear accelerator (LINAC) machine to treat malignant tumours is going to be released within three months.
Healthcare

‘Irrational’ Iranian Use of Medicine

Emad Askarieh -
Iran's per capita consumption of pharmaceuticals is among the highest (20th) in the world and it is the second largest consumer of medical products in Asia, according to official data.
Healthcare

Iranian-Made Haemodialysis Machine Ready to Be Released

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Ali Taheri, the head of electronics and software department at Arya Teb Firouz Medical Equipment Company, announced that Iran has joined the eight countries in the world that can mass-produce hemodialysis machines.
Healthcare

Mandatory Food Standards Implemented to Help Control Non-Communicable Diseases

Golrokh Askarieh -
Measures have been taken to implement the National Document for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) that was introduced in October 2015, said Rasoul Dinarvand, head of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Healthcare

Life Expectancy in Iran Rises to 73 for Men, 76 for Women

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Hassan Eini-Zinab, a university professor specializing in demographics at the University of Shahid Beheshti, noted that Iranian men had an average life expectancy of 42 in 1950, but it gradually increased, reaching 73 by 2011.
Healthcare

Disturbing Rise in Multiple Sclerosis in Iran

Golrokh Askarieh -
Iran stands first in the rising levels of Multiple Sclerosis among the states of the Middle East, the vice president of Iranian MS Society reported.
Crisis

Iranian Minister Blames Israel for Health Situation in Palestine

Emad Askarieh -
Iranian Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi held Israel responsible for the deteriorating health and hygiene conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Government

2 New Pharmaceutical Products Produced per Month under Rouhani’s Tenure

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Iranian Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi announced that the country has managed to produce two new drugs each month under the tenure of President Hassan Rouhani despite all problems and deficiencies.
Asia

S Korean Company to Build 1000-Bed Hospital in Mazandaran

Emad Askarieh -
The Chancellor of Mazandaran Medical University, Ghasem Jan Babaei, said that the Samsung Company from South Korea is to build a 1000-bed hospital in the province.
Europe

Italy to Build Hospital in Iran’s Isfahan

Golrokh Askarieh -
An Italian company is set to build a 1,500-bed hospital in this historical city in central Iran.
Agriculture

Agriculture Minister Calls for Expansion of Iran-Holland Cooperation

Golrokh Askarieh -
Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati called for expansion of cooperation between Iran and the Netherlands in producing herbal medicines.
Healthcare

NASA’s Iranian Scientist Devises New Method to Treat Prostate and Uterine Cancer

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Hamidreza Chabok, an Iranian scientist in the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has managed to treat prostate and uterus cancers with greater certainty and success rates using ultrasound technology.
Africa

Iran and Ivory Coast Discuss Medical and Health Ties

Golrokh Askarieh -
Iranian and Ivorian officials in a meeting in Abidjan on Sunday conferred on ways to further broaden relations between the two countries in medical, health and hygiene fields.
Healthcare

Health Tourism: Iran Able to Make $7bn Out of Mud

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Seyed Ali Riyaz, an Iranian dentist, believes that the Islamic Republic has a great potential to attract health tourists and cab make as much...
Healthcare

FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence Inaugurated in Tehran

Fatemeh Askarieh -
The Iran Football Medical Assessment and Rehabilitation Center (IFMARC) opened on Monday Apr 25, attended by Mahmoud Goudarzi, the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, and FIFA representatives, at Iran’s national football team training camp.
Healthcare

Increasing Threat of Non-Communicable Diseases: Deputy Minister

Golrokh Askarieh -
Non-communicable diseases are growing, threatening the health of Iranians, the deputy health minister Ali-Akbar Sayyari said.
Healthcare

World’s Largest Brain Research Centre under Construction in Tehran

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Based on a proposal by Professor Majid Samii, the world’s largest brain and neuro ​logy ​research centre is being constructed in the Iranian capital​, under...
Healthcare

Iranian Dentist Gives Free Street Dental Exams

Golrokh Askarieh -
Shafi Ja’fari is a young dentist who gave out free dental examinations to people around Enqelab Square, in central Tehran, ISNA news agency reported.
Healthcare

Iranian Dentist Holds Hands-On Course in Dubai World Congress

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Behnam Shakibaie, an Iranian researcher and inventor specializing in oral surgery, delivered a speech and held a hands-on course on microsurgery in a conference recently held in Dubai, the UAE.
Europe

Nikolic calls for Serbia-Iran medical cooperation

Golrokh Askarieh -
The Serbian president Sunday expressed hope that his country will cooperate with Iran in the field of neurosurgery.
Education

The Dedication of an Iranian Doctor now Commemorated in Iraqi Schoolbooks

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Authorities from the Iraqi education system have decided to dedicate the subject of one of the lessons in the fourth grade book to an Iranian doctor who saved tens of children who had been poisoned by chemical weapons in Halabja.
Healthcare

UNAIDS lauds Iran for treating people who inject drugs

Fatemeh Askarieh -
Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem, which will take place from 19 to 21 April in New York, United States of America, UNAIDS has released a new report entitled Do no harm: health, human rights and people who use drugs.
Education

New Major Medical Cybernetics in Iranian Universities

Golrokh Askarieh -
Habibolah Kovari, a Professor at the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, said that the field of medical cybernetics is to be established in Iran for the first time.
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