Health and Hygiene

PayvandNews — As evidence displays, the capital’s air pollution and traffic congestion are amongst the main concerns of the newly-elected Tehran City Council.  During the first session of the fifth Tehran City Council on Wednesday, the chairman Mohsen Hashemi highlighted the need for following-up on different urban management plans with the aim of reducing traffic congestion and decreasing air pollution in …

PayvandNews – The Iranian minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare has said that the country has a potential to earn $7 billion in revenues through attracting one million health tourists on a yearly basis. Relative wallet-friendly services can be considered as the main advantage of medical tourism in Iran, Ali Rabiei said in an address to an international conference held …

PayvandNews – Iran began building its National Ion Therapy Center with Austrian help on Monday, in a 200 million Euros project which follow the country’s landmark nuclear deal with six world powers in July 2015. Senior Iranian officials, including nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, appeared at the launching ceremony for the five-year project with …

telegraph -A British-Iranian grandfather will be entering his seventh year in prison for alleged espionage charges in Iran, his family said. Kamal Foroughi, a 77-year-old oil and gas company consultant, was detained in 2011 before being convicted of espionage and possessing alcohol two years later. Friday marks six years since the detention of Mr Foroughi, who strenuously maintains his innocence. The …

PayvandNews – Foreign biological specimens from six countries including Spain and India are being held under optimum conditions at Iranian Biological Research Center, the IBRC director said Monday. Iranian Biological Research Center (IBRC) Director of the Iranian Biological Research Center (IBRC), Abolhassan Shahzadeh Fazli, told MNA that currently 33,000 biospecimen in 27 collections are being held at the center, adding each year …

Al-monitor – A massive influx of dust storms in recent weeks has once again paralyzed Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan. The province has been reeling from dust storms since the early 2000s, a problem which often leads to schools and government offices being closed, power, water and internet outages as well as residents being rushed to hospitals with respiratory complications. AUTHOR Zahra Alipour According …

PayvandNews – Photos by Ali Mohammadi, ISNA Demonstrators took the streets of the western Iranian city of Ahvaz on February 13 to protest against air pollution, water shortages, and power cuts. Amateur video obtained by RFE/RL’s Radio Farda showed crowds chanting against what they called “injustice.” They also condemned state television for its apparent lack of reporting on the condition of …

PayyvandNews – Iranian researchers at Royan Research Institute  have proved in a study that the problem with long bone nonunion is related to mesenchymal cells. Related Book: Guidelines in Fracture Management Nonunion in Long Bones I Long bone nonunion is a serious complication of a fracture in which the normal process of bone healing is interrupted or stalled. If the accident …

Al-monitor – Iran is in the grip of heated debate on whether homeless women who are addicted to drugs should be sterilized. The controversy began Dec. 27 after Shahrvand daily published images of homeless men and women sleeping in open graves in a cemetery near Shahriar, a small town in Tehran province. The story sent shockwaves across Iran and led …

VOA – A rare protest by Iranians against their government’s use of broadcast jamming equipment is bringing global attention to growing concerns about the health impact of the practice. Dozens of residents of the southern Iranian city of Shiraz joined the protest January 9, rallying outside the headquarters of the governor of Fars province, of which Shiraz is the capital. Participants …