Health

Yesterday was celebrated as Iran’s Clean Air, Blue Sky Day. Air pollution is a major issue in mega cities like Tehran. Most days, Tehran is clouded by a thick layer of smog making it difficult to breath especially for children and elderly.
Every year on January 19, they celebrate Clean Air day, encouraging people to use [...]

2009 was a chaotic year. The Gaza war just ended on January 18, 2009 , leaving many people around the world in grief and concerned about the result: Around 1500 Palestinians murdered-many of them women and children- , more than 400′000 Gazans were left without running water, 4000 homes were distroyed or badly damaged and [...]

Consider the pharma and drug industries lovely work! from the 1950’s until the 1990’s, and these are just my favorite ones, just hand-picked from thousands of pages of facts from Articles of Health: Death by Vaccines.
Please read:
1) 1955- The Salk Polio Vaccine used in the U.S. for cases of polio sky rocket! It was [...]

I recently got a chance to interview a young Bahraini entrepreneur Reem Al-Khalifa, who founded her own company, Green Bar Inc. in 2006. Green Bar products include oils and moisturizers, all made from natural ingredients. Reem makes sure to use local ingredients as well to promote what the region offers in terms of nature.
First, can [...]

الذين اذا أصابتهم مصيبة قالوا انا لله وانا أليه راجعون
who say, when afflicted with calamity: “to allah we belong, and to him is our return” (2:156)
In memory of 168 victims of tragic Tehran-Yerevan plane crash including members of Iran’s national junior Judo team..
My condolence to all felllow Iranians and those who lost their family [...]

Ever since American talk show host Oprah Winfrey announced that her website www.oprah.com would be giving away coupons for free chicken dinners, KFC restaurants around America have been literally inundated with people coming with coupons in hand for a free chicken dinner, including two side dishes and a farm biscuit.
The situation has gotten so [...]

Here’s a post on Techabia which will link you to the article on HealthMap, who supply the info.
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(Palm Island in Dubai)
A couple of weeks ago I was in New Orleans with my parents at the annual craziness known as Fat Tuesday during Mardi Gras. Besides the excess of everything I saw there including waste, and the nasty black eye I sustained from a large set of beads being thrown on my head [...]

How do changemakers form bold ideas, and turn them into a massive project like a major documentary film? Today we talk with Courtney Nichols, producer of the new film Blood For Water, on how she came from the world of business to take on the global problem of water politics head on. She’s planning on [...]

Many diseases receive the attention of the information media, World Health Organization, other health organizations and non-government organizations. Certain diseases have an international day during which the information media focus on the disease, conferences held, events organized and funds are raised in support of research and the development of cure or treatment for the disease. [...]