Best supplements for eyes: When it comes to looking after your eyes, certain nutrients have a particular affinity with eye health. Which vitamins and minerals, available in supplement form, can help boost vision? Healthy eyes are maintained by eating a nutritious balanced diet, but certain vitamins and minerals have a particular affinity with eye health,...Read More
For patients who take medication to treat hypothyroidism, being treated with too much medication can lead to an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder associated with stroke, a new study of more than 174,000 patients has found. The findings were presented by researchers from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in...Read More
The first Iranian accelerator for traditional medicine will be introduced in the 4th festival of medicinal herbs, natural products and traditional medicine, which runs from November 12 to 15 at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla. “A total of 110 startups will be participating in the exhibition,” said Esmaeil Qaderifar, an official with the vice presidency for...Read More
The Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Films underway in the Spanish city of Bilbao is reviewing films by Iranian women directors in a special program. A selection of 20 documentaries and shorts have been chosen to go on screen in the program “The Present Female”, the organizers have announced. “Gaze” by Farnush Samadi,...Read More
HLA (Human leucocyte Antigen) Bank project, designed and implemented by Iranian charity society, MAHAK, was selected as the gold winner of the International Project Management Association’s (IPMA) Global Project Achievement Award 2018. Founded in 1991, Mahak is a Tehran-based non-governmental organization dedicated to treating pediatric cancer in Iran. In the 16th IPMA Global Award Gala...Read More
The Ministry of Health has devised a plan for the control, prevention and treatment of Osteoporosis, announced Afshin Ostovar, the ministry’s director for non-communicable diseases. According to Ostovar, in Iran, 17 percent of adults have osteoporosis but it is more prevalent in women as 1 in every 2 women and 1 in every 5 men...Read More
Iran achieved MDG 5 [United Nations Millennium Development Goals] by being the 9th country with the lowest maternity death worldwide, the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times. It’s a big achievement because to end the death during childbirth is a goal that UNFPA...Read More
Actress Ehteram Sadat Habibian who made her debut as Momma Etti in “Sweet Agony”, directed by her son, Alireza Davudnejad, in 1999, died of old age on Saturday. She passed away at a hospital in Karaj where she was admitted to the ICU two weeks ago, her grandchild, Reza Davudnejad, who co-starred with her in...Read More
Iran’s Culture Minister Abbas Salehi said all types of art have similarities with their counterparts in the world, but ta’zieh is an Iranian art which is unique to Iran. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the second mourning ritual of ta’zieh in the city of Jam, in Iran’s southern province of Bushehr, Salehi added that visual, musical,...Read More
Iranian researchers have developed the formulation of an herbal medicine for prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, ISNA reported on Friday. The drug’s structure is based on nanotechnology and is released inside the brain as it can sneak through blood–brain barrier. Dementia is a syndrome in which there is deterioration in memory, thinking,...Read More
