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Health and Hygiene

Danger Of Hepatitis A And Cholera Outbreak In Khuzestan Due To Drought

Iran-HRM - Referring to the observation of several cases of hepatitis A in Khuzestan Province, the head of the Ahvaz…

Iran’s Categorization of Autism As a “Special Disease” Is a Double-Edged Sword for Persons With Disabilities

CHRI - The Iranian Parliament’s recognition of autism as a “special disease” will have positive and negative consequences for persons…

Tehran Police Open Fire on Sufi Gonabadi Protesters as Clashes Leave Several Dead

CHRI - A protest by followers of Iran’s Muslim Sufi Gonabadi Order was attacked with police fire and tear gas near the…

“IRANOME” project inaugurated in presence of Iran’s Health Minister

PayvandNews - A scientific and technological project dubbed "IRANOME" was opened today in the Rehabilitative and Welfare Sciences University in…

Long road ahead for Iran’s medicinal plants industry

Al-Montior — The world has seen great advances in medicine in recent centuries, leading to the discovery and manufacture of…

Rising HIV infections spreading by sex among youth in Iran

ABC - In a square in a poor eastern Tehran neighborhood known for its drug addicts and dealers, psychologist Atefeh…

Iran emerges as health tourism destination

Al-Monitor — Tourism is nowadays at the core of attention of many governments across the world because of its major contribution…

Iranian Poet Sentenced to Prison and Flogging For the Charge of “Insulting the Sacred”

CHRI - Poet and civil rights activist Reza Ekvanyan has been sentenced to three years in prison and 40 lashes for…

UK firm to invest 1.8 billion Euros in building cancer centers in Iran

PayvandNews - International Hospitals Group (IHG), a UK-based healthcare services company, has signed a memorandum of understanding worth 1.8 billion Euros…

Iran’s Health Officials Raise Alarm over Islamic Medicine: Imam Reza drugs or Holy Mary incense

Radiozamaneh - A phenomenon referred to as "Islamic Medicine" has been rapidly growing in popularity in Iran raising concerns in the…