Reuters - U.S. immigration officials on Monday deported an Iranian student headed to a Boston university despite efforts by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocates to block the removal. The deportation of Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi, a 24-year-old Iranian citizen enrolled at Northeastern University, comes after U.S. Customs ...

(ISNA)- Women who take prescription painkillers early in pregnancy increase their likelihood of bearing children with neural tube birth defects, results of a study by an Iranian researcher and her colleagues at Boston University found. Study author Mahsa Yazdy, a postdoctoral associate at Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, said using opioids ...