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Latest Health and Medical News in Iran – Healthcare in Iran – Medical news and articles from across Iran, exploring various health challenges and developments faced nationally and globally.

Environment

Some 35 million Iranians are affected by air pollution: Environment chief

Emad Askarieh -
The 11th government is taking good steps to tackle air pollution in the country; one such step is to cut the emission of hazardous gases in cooperation with the Oil Ministry, said Ebtekar.
Healthcare

Professor Samii honored with China Shenzhen citizenship

Emad Askarieh -
A hospital in Shenzhen, China has been named after world-class Iranian neurosurgeon Majid Samii, who also has been offered the citizenship of the Chinese city.
Hard News

Iranian scientists reduce cancer drug side effects with nanotechnology

Golrokh Askarieh -
Iranian researchers have discovered that the side effects of the drug Mitoxantrone could be reduced when the chemotherapeutic agent is infused with liposomic nanocarriers.
Hard News

Iranian researchers produce anti-cancer nano-drug

Golrokh Askarieh -
Iranian scientists have developed a nano-drug which can fight the treatment-resistant cancers.
Healthcare

Twelve years of love and hope (PHOTOS)

Fatemeh Askarieh -
A photo gallery of a caring Iranian family who has been looking after the father for 12 years after he was confined to bed because of Cerebral palsy.
Healthcare

Remote diagnosis of disease via smart phones

Emad Askarieh -
The new application is capable of accurately detecting pathogens from plasma and the results can be transmitted to anywhere throughout the world.
Healthcare

Per capita consumption of milk is low in Iran

Emad Askarieh -
During the years an Iranian child becomes a teenager, milk consumption falls by 75 percent while consumption of food with high content of sugar increases 300 percent.
Healthcare

UNESCO pays tribute to world-renowned Iranian Professor Khodadoost

Emad Askarieh -
It is for the first time that UNESCO is honoring the efforts of a living Iranian figure in Iran.
Healthcare

Iranian researchers convert injecting chemo drugs to edible forms

Emad Askarieh -
A majority of drugs used in chemotherapy need to be injected at medical centers. With higher absorption, edible chemo drugs can be taken in the comfort of home by patients.
Hard News

Iran, Japan sign MoU on health cooperation

IFP Editorial Staff -
Under the MoU, Tehran and Tokyo will cooperate in areas such as treatment, education, health, medicines, and research.
Healthcare

Iran makes anti-Alzheimerˈs drug from saffron, for 1st time in world

Emad Askarieh -
ˈSafrotinˈ, a medicine produced from saffron, can decrease the signs of the Alzheimerˈs disease noticeably.
Healthcare

Organic food exhibition in Tehran (Photos)

Emad Askarieh -
Organic food lovers flocked to a Tehran expo which displayed, among other things, the farming methods Iranian producers use to prepare organic food.
Healthcare

Italian Red Cross opens school for volunteer nurses in Iran

Emad Askarieh -
The nurses receiving training at the school will be able to take part in rescue operations and rapid deployment in disaster-hit areas as well as military conflicts.
Healthcare

A bedside visit by the health minister to an acid attack victim

Emad Askarieh -
Iran’s health minister, who is a veteran ophthalmologist, has paid a third bedside visit to a 27-year-old woman who fell victim to an acid attack in Isfahan in late 2014.
Education

Students shave heads in sympathy with teacher (Photos)

Emad Askarieh -
Students in a school in Hamadan, western Iran, have shaved their heads to show sympathy with their teacher who is terminally ill.
Hard News

Equal opportunities for people is social justice: Rouhani

Emad Askarieh -
President Rouhani says 8 out of around 9 million Iranians who did not have health insurance when he took office have already received insurance cards.
Hard News

Official underlines rise in number of health tourists to visit Iran

Emad Askarieh -
Over 500,000 health tourists are likely to visit Iran in the coming months, said an official with the Health Ministry.
Healthcare

A thousand health centers with physicians on hand are to open in rural areas

Emad Askarieh -
The Healthcare Transformation Plan is intended to raise medical tariffs, secure the satisfaction of doctors and put a lid on illegal medical fees charged by some doctors.
Healthcare

Iran has built seven advanced laser systems for medical uses

Emad Askarieh -
Iran says experts at the Atomic Energy Organization have built seven new state-of-the-art laser systems to be used in medical procedures.
Hard News

Iranian researcher invents allergy, HIV-diagnosis sensor

Emad Askarieh -
Somayyeh Khezrian, an Iranian researcher in Tehran University, has developed a sensor which can diagnose allergy and HIV in early stages.
Healthcare

Twin sisters, joined at heart and liver, are born in Shiraz (photos)

Emad Askarieh -
The conjoined twins should live stuck together for at least a year before they can live two separate lives.
Healthcare

Gross reproduction rate has seen a fall in Iran

Emad Askarieh -
Low rates of fertility and gross reproduction have become Iran’s demographic challenges; Iran is second among Islamic nations with the lowest fertility rate.
Healthcare

Iranian doctors successfully conduct thyroplasty surgery

Emad Askarieh -
The surgery is conducted on men who have signs of maturity but their voice is still too feminine.
Books

A critical look at the 5:2 diet

Emad Askarieh -
A thin, fat or even a fit individual should consume all food groups on a daily basis based on their body needs to maintain their health and get the required energy.
Hard News

Iran makes electronic artificial hand

Emad Askarieh -
Locally-made artificial hands would cost one fourth of the German-made models on the market.
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