Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States sanctions targeting Iran's access to medicines and treatment services amount to economic terrorism, calling on the international community to compel the US to quit its policy. "The US indiscriminate policy of maximum pressure has placed certain restrictions on Iranian ...

Tasnim - Iranian Health Minister Saeid Namaki dismissed as a big fat lie the US governments claim that its sanctions have not targeted the Islamic Republics health sector and imports of drugs. Speaking to reporters in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Sunday, Namaki highlighted the problems facing the country in the area of pharmaceuticals and ...

MNA The Central Bank of Iran has allotted 2 billion for the purchase of necessity goods and medicine since the start of the Iranian year on March 21. Since the start of the current Iranian year on March 21, 2019, over 2.2 billion euros (each euro roughly 11,000 tomans) were distributed by the Central Bank of Iran and exporters in the secondary ...

ISNA The director of Irans Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Gholamreza Asghari stressed that now the main problem in medicine field is the transfer of money and goods. In an interview with ISNA news agency, Dr. Gholamreza Asghari explained the current situation of Irans medicine market following the re-imposition of US illegal sanctions, saying,...

FNA - Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi blasted Washington for disruption of efforts and closure of channels that Tehran supplied imported medicine and medical equipment for the Iranian people. "The Americans have designed certain mechanisms which can trouble and prevent imports of some goods to Iran to pressure the Iranian people,...

FNA - Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh blasted the US for blocking Tehran's banking ties with other countries, warning that such sanctions will mostly pressure the people of Iran by depriving them from needed drugs and food. "In reaction to the International Court of ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Maziar Motamedi: The second and final sanctions deadline of November 4 is drawing near. After this date, unilateral US sanctions on Irans financial sector will once again come into force. According to Iranian bankers and government officials, this could mean that Iran struggles to import humanitarian goods, including basic foodstuffs....

IFP - Iran has displayed for the first time its medical capabilities in an international brain surgery seminar held in the southern city of Shiraz. During the seminar held earlier this week, Iranian surgeons performed four live cerebrovascular surgeries displaying the Iranian doctors efficiency and capabilities in this field, according ...

Prensa Latina - Specialists and authorities in Iran and Cuba held talks in this capital to determine the possibilities and conditions for expanding bilateral collaboration in the medical-scientific field, a diplomatic source announced today.   The contacts began on April 28 with the arrival in Tehran of a delegation from the Finlay Institute ...

IFP - The unearthing of a skull in an archaeological site known as Burnt City in southeastern Iran has changed the countrys medical history. The skull of a 13-year-old girl was dug out during archaeological excavations in Sistan and Baluchestan province in 1977. It was found among the remains of 13 people in a mass grave dating back ...

IFP- Iran has been under the pressure of the US sanctions for more than 30 years and Washingtons policies on the Islamic Republic are not going to change under recently inaugurated President Donald Trump, Qazizadeh Hashemi told reporters on Saturday. Making assurances that the country will face no problem now that a new president in office in the ...

AKI Press- The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan and the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran discussed cooperation issues, said the press service of the Kyrgyz Health Ministry. Minister Talantbek Batyraliyev on December 13 met the representatives of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran and the Semnan University of Medical ...

ISNA An Iranian researcher from Karolinska Institute in Sweden says Iran looks to personalized cancer medicine as a major treatment which will replace other methods such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy with minimum side effects in future. We are working with circulating tumor cells and what we are doing exactly is to isolate the circulating tumor ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) Iran has signed a number of MoUs with three countries for the export of medicinal herbs, director for export development corridor said Mon. Malek Saeidi, director for export development and technology exchange corridor for Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, talked about the activities and programs organized for ...

Ahvaz, Khuzestan Prov., Aug 15, IRNA Italy is to build 2,000-bed hospital in Ahvaz, Chancellor of Ahvaz Jondi Shapour University of Medical Sciences Esmail Idani said on Monday. Idani made the remarks in a meeting of the University of Medical Sciences and the Italian private sector. The meeting aimed to share experience with the Italian party ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Three medicines with Iranian formulas are going to be produced in Russia, an Iranian official announced. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Head of the Syndicate of Iranian Holders of Human Pharmaceutical Industries Abbas Kebriyayizade said Iran and Russia are developing cooperation in the pharmaceutical industry. As ...

TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA) Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Assistance Publique-- Hpitaux de Paris have signed a cooperation agreement. Ali Jafarian and Didier Houssin were signatories to the deal signed on Sunday in Tehran during a meeting where both sides presented a brief description of educational system and discussed academic exchange ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian intelligence forces managed to dismantle a criminal gang involved in importing contraband medicines to the country, the intelligence ministry announced on Monday. Following intelligence operations in East Azarbaijan Province in northwestern Iran and here in the capital over the past month, the intelligence forces identified ...

If we count all the hidden fees and expenses, people in Iran pay around 70 percent of their salaries for medical expenses, Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi said, ILNA reported. "The costs of heathcare and intractable diseases treatments, annually bring 7,5 percent of people in Iran below the poverty line," Dastjerdi said, noting ...

By The New York Times TEHRAN Sitting on one of the many crowded benches in the waiting room of the International Red Crescents pharmacy in central Tehran, Ali, 26, was working his phone. After nearly six weeks of chasing down batches of Herceptin, an American-madecancermedicine, Ali, an engineer, was wearing out his welcome with friends and relatives ...