TEHRAN– The President of the Sports Medicine Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (SMFIRI), Dr. Lotfali Pour-Kazemi says Iran's National Anti-Doping Organization and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) would conduct doping tests for Iranian athletes.   Pour-Kazemi told IRNA on Tuesday that doping is controlled in several ways, including public education and dissemination of information at the championship and professional levels.

ISFAHAN— Prof. Emin Ergen, from Sports Medicine Department of Ankara University Medical School, recently briefed the 8th Iranian International Sports Medicine Congress (Isfahan-May 2-4) on historical roots of sports medicine.

TEHRAN— Professor Martin W Thompson from the University of Sydney, Australia, in a speech to the 8th Iranian International Sports Medicine Congress (Isfahan-May 2-4) announced that circulatory strain culminating in a decreased cardiac output limits endurance exercise in the heat.

Isfahan— Dr. Babak Shadgan from University of British Columbia, Canada says the incidence of injuries during wrestling matches at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was not as high as previous reports.

ISFAHAN—Minister of Youth and Sports, Mohammad Abbassi, on Wednesday hoped that scientific development of sports would result in higher level of social health.<o:p></o:p>