Obesity and overweight have grown 5.5 folds over the past four decades in Iran, chancellor of Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences has said. Based on the studies salt intake for Iranians amount to 10.6 germs a day which almost doubles global standards, Mohammad Aqajani said, regretting that that daily sugar intake in Iran...Read More

The head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) said registering Yalda on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list is on the organization’s agenda. Ali Asghar Mounesan made the remarks in a ceremony to commemorate Yalda — the Persian solstice — which was attended by foreign representatives and ambassadors as well as ICHHTO managers,...Read More

Women who experience a ‘false positive’ result after a mammogram are twice as likely to end up developing cancer as those who get a negative result, research suggested. Every year, thousands of women are given the ‘all-clear’ after being told that apparent abnormalities are not malignant, telegraph.co.uk reported. But research on more than one million...Read More

Pregnant women and the extremely obese are among those at high risk for complications from the flu — including death — and should be tested and begin antiviral treatment promptly if they are sick enough to be hospitalized with flu symptoms, according to updated guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Outpatients...Read More

 Iranian storyteller Najmeh Ahmadzadeh took first place in the international competition of the 21st International Storytelling Festival in Tehran, the organizers announced on Thursday. Winners in various categories were honored during the closing ceremony of the event at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA). The performances in this section were...Read More