Press TV - Iranian authorities say some $50 million has been saved through a new scheme for production at home of 30 medicines that used to be imported into the country from abroad. Irans minister of labor and social security unveiled the batch of new home-made drugs in ceremony in the capital Tehran on Tuesday. Mohammad Shariatmadari, whose ...

IRNA The vice president for science and technology, Sourena Sattari, said on Saturday that the Iranian knowledge-based companies are producing 98 percent of the pharmaceuticals needed inside the country. Noting that the price of a barrel of oil is less than a bottle of cologne, he said that during a session of Mazandaran's Knowledge-Based Economy ...

FNA - Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced that the country is now manufacturing nearly all its needs to medicine, noting that two thirds of raw materials are also produced inside Iran. "97% of the country's needs to medicine is produced domestically and the remaining 3% imported drugs will also be produced in Iran in future by 1,200 knowledge-...

IRNA Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said on Tuesday that Iran has put on agenda the indigenous production of the US-sanctioned medicines. Iran has high capacity for producing medicine inside the country, Sattari said at a ceremony held in northern Iranian province of Alborz on unveiling four anti-cancer and ant-diabetic ...

MNA Deputy health minister for educational affairs revealed the conclusion of a contract between Iran and Russia for broadening and boosting health cooperation. Bagher Larijani pointed to the education of a great number of Iranian students in the Russian Federation and said, with the coordination made in this regard, Iranian and Russian ...

Tasnim Iranian Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi unveiled three new domestically made medicines: two blood glucose-lowering drugs and a new type of antihistamine. In a ceremony held on Tuesday, Qazizadeh Hashemi unveiled the mass production of Neotadine, the newest second-generation antihistamine approved by the FDA, in Dr. Abidi Pharmaceutical ...

IFP- Authorities say Iran produces almost all the pharmaceuticals it needs domestically, and at the same times keeps the prices of medicines low for people to be able to afford them. A top Iranian pharmaceutical official has given an optimistic view of the countrys pharmaceutical industry, which suggests the industry is in a good situation and ...

IRNA - Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi said on Saturday that over 90 percent of the medicines consumed in Iran are produced inside the country. Qazizadeh Hashemi made the remarks in the unveiling ceremony of a type of herbal medicine called Melitropic which can be used in treating the Alzheimer in Alborz province in west of Tehran. He ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) � Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs Sorena Sattari on Tuesday unveiled three new achievements made by the country's researchers in the field of pharmaceuticals.     By Tasnim News Agency

Tehran, May 30, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said here on Friday that Iran is trying to become self-sufficient in some medicines production. Talking to reporters, President Rouhani made the remarks when inaugurating the first production line of growth hormone in Tehran. This Iranian calendar year, is the year of economic prosperity and resistance ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology Kamran Daneshjou unveiled three new drugs produced by Iranian scientists at Razi University in the western Kermanshah province this Iranian year (March 2013-March 2014). The three drugs named Minoxidil, Monte Lucas and Thiopental Sodium are used to treat blood pressure (hypertension),...

Some 97 percent of Iran's required medicine is currently produced domestically, Iran's Health Ministry official Hossein Ayati said. He said about 50 percent of the necessary raw materials for producing the medicine is imported. Last year, some $1.7 billion was allocated to import medicine which is not produced inside the country, Ayati added. In ...