Health and Hygiene

PayvandNews – Researchers at Iranian Institute of Medicinal Plants will unveil on Tuesday a type of herbal medicine ‘Melitropic’ that can be used in treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers used ancient and indigenous knowledge of the Iranian land in treatment of brain problems and conducted extensive research on the latest studies in the world on this subject to produce, …

Iranhumanrights.org – UN Expert Urges Iran to Release All Political Prisoners Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, who was released on January 3, 2017 after her imprisoned husband Arash Sadeghi’s 71-day hunger strike resulted in a promised case review for his wife, is refusing to obey an order to return to Evin Prison. “By law, my prison term should be rescinded because …

Al-Arabia – Pollution in Tehran has hit a dangerous level on the Air Quality Index, with airborne particles considered “unhealthy” for the general public. Kindergartens and primary schools in the Iranian capital were ordered to stay closed Sunday, according the state run television. Every year, Tehran suffers some of the worst pollution in the world when cool temperatures cause an …

PayvandNews – The maternal mortality rate in Iran is far below the target set by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Safieh Shahriari-Afshar, a founding member of the Family Health Association of Iran (FHA Iran), told a press conference on December 27. Low maternal mortality rate is one of the indicators of development in each country, Safieh Shahriari-Afshar, said. …

Iran Human Rights -Four prisoners on death for drug offenses are in imminent danger of execution. At least four prisoners were reportedly transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison in preparation for their executions.The transfer to solitary confinement for the four prisoners, who are on death row for drug related offenses, occurred on Monday January 2. Close sources have …

VOA – The images are morbid: homeless men, women, and children so desperate for shelter that they would resort to living in open graves. Yet that is what some 50 Iranians have reportedly been doing for years, holing themselves up in concrete dugouts at a graveyard outside Tehran. Images and video of the men living in squalor have sparked shock …

Al-monitor – On Dec. 27, Shahrvand daily ran an article that shocked ordinary Iranians and officials alike. The piece, titled “Living inside the grave,” reported on how a group of homeless people had taken shelter in a cemetery close to Shahriar, a town in Tehran province. AUTHOR Rohollah Faghihi “It’s been a month since the cold led the homeless to …

PayvandNews -Tehran’s wet streets provide temporary relief to millions who have been tolerating unbearable levels of pollution. In today’s Tehran, precipitation is associated with romanticism and blessings, washing away polluted skies briefly before reality sets in again. Pollution has plagued Iran’s capital for years, manifesting in various health problems amongst locals, closing of schools, and transforming daily activities into questions …

PayvandNews – Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University have designed and developed brain stimulator transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) devices that can be used in treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. Golnaz Baghdadi, Bioelectric PhD student at Biomedical Engineering Department of Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), told Mehr News that the tDCS device has been developed in Iran for the first time by a team …

PayvandNews – Historically low rainfalls have raised concerns that Iran will have an arid year in 2017. Iran’s Tasnim news agency in a report said the average rainfalls in the country dropped this autumn by 74 percent compared to last year. This was the lowest drop the country had seen for the past 47 years, Tasnim added. “Overall rainfalls measured …