Tasnim An Iranian official said budget allotment for the import of pharmaceutical and medical products is in progress without any trouble, saying $3.5 billion has been disbursed so far. Head of Irans Food and Drug Administration Gholam Reza Jafari said there is no problem in the process of allocation of funds forimportingpharmaceutical material and ...

Siamak Namazi, a Middle East specialist whose career spans the consulting, think tank and non-profit worlds, is currently a consultant based out of Dubai. His former positions include the managing director of Atieh Bahar Consulting, an advisory and strategic consulting firm in Tehran. He has also carried out stints as a fellow in the Wilson Center ...

Philadelphia - Its not every day that an American physician gets asked to function as an international pharmaceutical supplier, but for some, its becoming a regular occurrence. A doctor I know told of a patient getting ready for a trip to Istanbul, where he would connect with Iranian friends. The patient asked for a prescription for a diabetes medication,...

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 ...

Iran is experiencing big shortages of drugs for treating hemophilia, former CEO of Iran's Hemophilia treating Association, Ahmed Ghavidel said, ILNA reported. "Because of anti-hemophilia drug shortages in the country, many patients have developed cedtain disabilities," Ghavidel said, adding that the there is either a limited access to hemophilia-...

By BBC Hospitals, clinics and pharmacies in Iran are running out of medicine as the government cuts health funding because of international sanctions, putting the lives of thousands of people at risk, reports the BBC's Mohsen Asgari. At the well-known 13 Aban Pharmacy in central Tehran, Atefeh Allahyari is queuing. Ms Allahyari left her house ...