Health
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Diabetes affects over 14% of Iran's population
Tehran, IRNA — Deputy Health Minister at Iran's Health Ministry, Dr. Alireza Raeisi has said that diabetes has affected over 14% of Iran's population.
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Iran hosts training program on ICU for Afghan healthcare professionals
Tehran, IRNA — Afghanistan has dispatched 40 specialists and nurses to Iran for an intensive one-month training program in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) management.
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WHO declares mpox outbreak a global emergency
Tehran, IRNA - The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak of "monkey pox" (mpox) for the second time in the last two years a public health emergency of international concern.
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Health staff in Gaza lack food ahead of Ramadan: Health spokesman
Tehran, IRNA — Healthcare workers in Gaza do not have sufficient food ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, media outlets have reported.
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Iran, Tajikistan agree on joint medicine production
Tehran, IRNA – The Iranian and Tajik ministers of health have discussed bilateral cooperation in the health sector to manufacture medicines.
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Iran ready to facilitate health tourism with Qatar: Minister
Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Health Minister Bahram Einollahi has expressed Iran’s readiness to facilitate health tourism with Qatar.
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Iran to provide free healthcare to children under seven
Tehran, IRNA – Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Education of Iran, Saeid Karimi, has announced that the country is to provide free treatment to patients under seven years of age in all public hospitals.
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National health survey
Doctors of Iran University of Medical Sciences screened residents of the region for high blood pressure and diabetes in the 'National Health Survey' by visiting the cities of Tehran province by bus and the villages of "Akhtar Abad" and "Mohammad Abad Qomshlo". The meaning of "probability of diabetes" is blood sugar of 126 and above, and the meaning of "probability of high blood pressure" is the number of 140 over 90 mm of mercury (14 over 9).
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Over 17.3m Iranians screened in National Health Campaign
Tehran, IRNA – More than 17.3 have so far joined and got screened in a National Health Campaign.
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Iran voices readiness to produce health products with Libya
Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) head, Heidar Mohammadi, announced Iran’s readiness to produce joint health products with Libya during a meeting with the deputy minister of health of Libya, Azzam al-Hadi Omar in Tehran.
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Health insurance available to 8,500 autism patients in Iran
Qom, IRNA – Managing director of Iran Health Insurance Organization has said that Iran is providing health insurance services to as many as 8,500 autism patients.
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Some 70% of Iranian adults are overweight or obese
Tehran, IRNA – Head of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences says some 60 to 70% of Iranian adults are either overweight or obese.