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15:06 08/12/2016SFSS statement related to violations in dairy production overrides the issueThe statement released by the State Food Security Service regarding the revelation of violations made by diary companies and the suspension of the production by that companies has risen concerns and...
15:52 06/12/2016Lacking natural resources, Armenia advances by virtue of its talented people, Leonid Roshal says“Everything related to Armenia runs like a red thread through my life. I have used to be here both on happy and sad occasions. I was wondering the other day that Armenia has no oil, gold, yet is has...
13:14 01/12/2016UN Secretary General: Let us recommit, together, to realizing our vision of a world free of AIDSUN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has issued a message on World AIDS day. The full message is as follows: “Thirty-five years since the emergence of AIDS, the international community can look back with...
12:33 01/12/2016Babken Pipoyan on issues in the meat marketThe issue of providing sanitation in the meat market can be tackled if the right approaches and offers are put in front of the state body.
17:12 25/11/2016Permanent representatives of Armenia participate in Annual International Bazaar in GenevaThe Permanent Mission of the Republic of Armenia to UN Office at Geneva participated in the Annual International Bazaar organized by the UN Women's Guild (UNWG).
15:18 22/11/20161800 children were sent home from schools and kindergartens during yesterdayOn 21 November, within the prevention program which is currently implemented across the whole country, 1800 children with flu symptoms were sent home from schools and kindergartens, with medical...
11:43 19/11/2016Dr. Denton Cooley, who performed the first heart transplant in the world, dies at 96Dr. Denton A. Cooley, the renowned surgeon who was the first to implant a totally artificial heart in a patient and in the process set off one of medicine’s greatest feuds, died on Friday at his home...
15:36 18/11/2016Ministry of Healthcare suggests establishing epidemiological control at schoolsCases of H3 subtype of A-type influenza have been recorded in Armenia over the past 1015 days. At this point no other cases of H1N1 virus are registered in the republic, Artavazd Vanyan, Head of...
18:03 14/11/201678 thousand people with diabetes registered in ArmeniaThe number of people with diabetes has doubled and the number of deaths due to diabetes tripled over the recent years, according to the ten-year research carried out by Information-Analytical center...
11:58 11/11/2016Childhood obesity linked to irregular sleep and skipping breakfastSkipping breakfast and irregular sleep patterns have been identified as key reasons why children may become dangerously overweight in research that sheds new light on the obesity epidemic.
16:55 04/11/2016We try to provide a free treatment, but we have what we have now: minister on possibilities and costs of cancer treatmentDuring the parliamentary debates of 2017 state budget MP Vahe Hovhannisyan noted that there are some branches in medicine that have registered serous progress, but there are some branches that are in...
15:19 03/11/2016Sleep deprivation feeds hunger: around four extra slices of toast a day, research suggestsA poor night’s sleep is likely to make you fatter, research suggests. As The Telegraph reports those who get less than seven hours' sleep a night were found to consume the equivalent of an extra four...
16:00 01/11/2016Awareness as a Means of PreventionVivaCell-MTS and Mission East Humanitarian Aid Organization Armenian Branch join efforts in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS.
12:18 31/10/2016Only 45 percent of infants under 6 months have been exclusively breastfed in Armenia: survey showsAccording to the results presented by Armenia Demographic and Health Survey (2015-2016) only half of infants under 6 months in Armenia (45 percent) have been exclusively breastfed.
18:34 26/10/2016Engine of airplane en route from Moscow to Yerevan caught fireLast night one of the engines of an airplane en route from Moscow to Yerevan caught fire. As Life news reports the passengers were quickly evacuated and were provided with another aircraft that took...
19:35 20/10/2016Monitoring mechanisms to be established for foreign medical workers operating in ArmeniaThe procedure of granting permission for short-term professional activity of foreign medical workers invited at the request of Armenian-based organizations is established by the decision of the...
15:08 19/10/2016Sergey Khachatryan: Counterfeit drugs are not produced in Armenia“Through the course of time we have become convinced that counterfeit drugs are not produced in Armenia, rather they are produced in abroad,” ahead of kicking off the discussion on the ratification...
15:24 12/10/2016Food security expert: We pay the cost for hunger due to incompetent managementEvery Sunday starting from 2013 “Helping poor families” https://web.facebook.com/ognenqkariqavornerin/?fref=ts&_rdr Facebook initiative group members visit the families in need, providing food,...
19:58 04/10/2016Italian professor: Poor food safety management leads to serious social and economic consequences“Poor food safety management leads to serious social and economic consequences and problems,” Tuscia University (Italy) professor Nicolo Merendino reminds witnessing the current issues in food safety...
17:54 17/09/2016Rivers of blood flow on streets of Dhaka after Eid animal sacrificesDoctors and health professionals are concerned about a probable disease outbreak in Dhaka following the hours-long waterlog mixed with the blood of sacrificed animals on the day of a national holiday...