Iranian doctors have carried out an in situ transplant of bio-artificial trachea in humans for the first time in the world. The transplant was carried out on a 29-year-old woman who had lost her trachea in a car accident. Doctors at the Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran say the patient is now in good state [...]

Iranian scientists announce that the first artificial windpipe will be ready to be transplanted on a human in the coming month. The head of Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Ali Akbar Velayati told Fars News Agency that Iranians are the first in the world to have succeeded in developing a whole artificial windpipe (trachea), adding that the [...]

Former Iranian interior minister Ali Kordan has died at the age of 51 from an incurable type of blood cancer at a hospital in Tehran. Kordan had long been struggling with multiple myeloma, the cancer of a type of white blood cells found in the bone marrow and known as plasma cells. Kordan, who had [...]