Young women are much more likely to care about climate change than young men, an Australian study has found. According to a survey of students aged 18-33 at Western Sydney University, young women are eight times more likely to believe processes of climate change will affect their lives than their male counterparts, smh.com.au wrote. Tonia...Read More
The representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to Iran hailed Iranian organizations for the effective services they provide for the older persons. Leila Joudane praised Iran’s efforts to provide senior citizens with appropriate services helping them live safe and added that responsible organizations have worked well to serve the senior population in the...Read More
All Mama’s Babies” by Rezvan Sarmad will be screened in the national competition of the 12th Cinema Verite, Iran’s major international festival of documentary cinema, which is scheduled to be held in December. The documentary covers a story about Sarmad family. The filmmaker’s parents decide to transform their house into a 9-floor apartment building to...Read More
The Iranian vice president for women’s and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, in a new initiative, invited girl students, to write about their problems in heartfelt letters to her. The female vice president have made such a proposal, to provide the opportunity for Iranian girls to raise their problems and let the officials, and herself as...Read More
Women made up 1.4 percent of faculty members of universities before the Islamic Revolution (1979), while this number shows a growth of 17 times reaching to 24 percent, Rajabali Borzooei, an official with Shahid Beheshti University, has said. Currently, about 4,150,000 students are studying in Iranian universities showing a growth of 23 times comparing with...Read More
A new study on children across the US, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, found that when they spend more than two hours on screens every day, they tend to perform more poorly on tests of cognition. It may not come as a total shock, given the research in recent years — and...Read More
The cost of breast cancer treatment rarely comes up in doctor-patient discussions — but most patients wish it would, researchers report. “Doctors and patients should be open to discussing the financial implications of treatment,” said study author Dr. Rachel Greenup, of the Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, NC, UPI reported. “Cost transparency could improve the...Read More
Our responsiveness to seeing others in distress accounts for variability in helping behavior from early in development, according to a study published Sein the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Tobias Grossmann of the University of Virginia, and colleagues. Altruistic behavior such as helping an unfamiliar person in need is considered a key feature of cooperation...Read More
Black women are more likely than white women to skip important hormonal breast cancer treatments, new research indicated. Endocrine therapy is used to add, block or get rid of naturally occurring hormones like estrogen and progesterone that trigger certain types of breast cancer, the study authors explained. Previous studies have shown that 10 years of...Read More
Taraneh Alidoosti, the star of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning movie “The Salesman”, will hold a masterclass during the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). A number of celebrated filmmakers of the world such as “Star Wars” producer Bryan Burk and Japanese actress Kaho Minami will also hold masterclasses at the event that will take place in...Read More
