WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine is live now. This links to the programme as well as the live feed. tm-summit.org

IASTAM President Dr. Michael Stanley-Baker @mstanleybaker.bsky.social will speak at the WHO Summit on Traditional Medicine in Delhi. He will present a historical exhibit and join the panel "Standards, data and responsible AI – from ancestral knowledge to action". tm-summit.org/speakers/

"Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas" - book launch: December 16, 2025. hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

Great new issue out on Religion, Medicine and Women's Health in Asia, four very cool articles, shedding important theoretical light on little-studied aspects of Asian medicine. Congratulations to all the authors and editors! brill.com/view/journal...

Potential expansion of Korean Medicine in rural Korea. Read the full article here: koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11...

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Taiwan’s Experiences & Global Practice workshop🌏 -15 Jan 2026 -Leiden, IIAS - In presence -Free, (but registration required) Info & registration: www.iias.asia/events/persp...

Inauguration of Sorig Research Centre at the Faculty of Traditional Medicine, Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan. Read more on their page Faculty of Traditional Medicine: www.facebook.com/NangpaiSorig...

Ahead of the 2nd WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine (17–29 Dec, New Delhi & online), WHO’s Bulletin has released its first special issue on Traditional Medicine since 1977, featuring new research, reviews, and policy papers. www.who.int/news/item/07...

New Special Issue in Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry on the Tibetan Tukdam post-death meditative state (Ed. Tawni Tidwell). Exploring how life, death, and consciousness meet in this rare state. link.springer.com/journal/1101... centerhealthyminds.org/science/stud...

Between Land and Body 🌿 Join Mridul Surbhi (PhD, IIT Delhi) this Thursday, Oct 30 · 6:30 PM IST on Zoom for a talk on Amchi medicine in Kinnaur & Spiti — where healing meets land, lineage & life. 🔗 Zoom: zoom.us/j/92358826919 Hosted by the Research Scholars Colloquium, Ashoka University.

#ABN2025 Prof Michael Stanley-Baker @mstanleybaker.bsky.social (Nanyang Technological University Singapore) who shared lessons from building Polyglot Asian Medicine. Rigour gives direction; humility builds bridges. That’s how we co-create between traditional and biomedical worlds.

#ABN2025: join IASTAM President @mstanleybaker.bsky.social for Situating Practice: How to Build Congenial Epistemic Spaces for Productive Transdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange on Traditional Medicine. abnconf2025.bioethics-singapore.gov.sg/programme/ma...

Discover Singapore’s Healing Heritage! Explore how Traditional Chinese Medicine evolved from humble medical halls to innovative treatments at “Healing Heritage: A Journey Through the Evolution of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Singapore.” singaporeccc.org.sg/media_room/h...

December 6–7 Yo San University presents Language as Medicine: Translation & Transmission in Chinese Medicine. A two-day virtual conference exploring how Classical Chinese medical wisdom lives on through translation and practice. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

Some fascinating seminars coming up (in-person only).

If you are interested in medicine, animal studies and ecology you can attend ‘Medicinal Animals’ in Crisis: A Three-Part Symposium online this week, hosted at NUS in Singapore. @mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social 9 October 2025 14:00 – 17:00 (SGT) ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...

Ministry of Ayush Inaugurates India’s First Integrative Oncology Research and Care Centre at AIIA Goa - This is, designed to bring together traditional and modern medical systems to offer patient-centric, evidence-informed oncology rehabilitation. www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease...

As President of IASTAM, Michael Stanley-Baker @mstanleybaker.bsky.social has released a remarkable cache of drug names linking 12 South Asian languages with Malay and Chinese. A major step forward for cross-regional research on medical traditions. www.facebook.com/reel/1079535...

Singapore is testing 18 proposals to bring TCM into public healthcare. Andrea Heng & Hairianto Diman chat with NTU’s Yang Mingxiao on what it’ll take to make this trial succeed. www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/cna93...

Panel 2 @ #MAE2025 (Vienna, Sept 18): Engaging Plurality, Negotiating Diversity 🌿 Bringing together scholars on Tibetan, Himalayan & Mongolian Sowa Rigpa traditions. Info: mae.univie.ac.at/.../Panel_02... Organized by Stephan Kloos & Barbara Gerke Online registration:

Yin, Yang, and Machine Learning: The Convergence of TCM and AI digest.headfoundation.org/2024/07/10/y...

Belated update: The 21st International Congress of Oriental Medicine (ICOM) took place in Taiwan on Aug 30–31, 2025. Theme: “Traditional Medicine: From Evidence-based to Integrative Medicine.” IASTAM VP James Flowers and members attended. www.2025icom.org.tw/icom.php?cat...

NIKOM and South Korea’s Health Ministry host the Intl. Symposium on Traditional Medicine, Sept 9–10, 2025. Theme: Korean Medicine + AI = The Future of Traditional Medicine. Watch live on YouTube! Visit the official website here: koreanmedicine.org/pages/sub.ht...

Modern pharmacology struggles to explain why people respond differently to the same drug. A new paper uses Ayurvedic principles and the Co.M.S. framework to shed light on drug behavior. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

High-quality clinical trials and cohort studies demonstrate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine treatments using acupuncture and Chinese Proprietary Medicines (CPMs) for chronic and non-chronic diseases in Singapore. annals.edu.sg/integrating-...

IASTAM’s member Sarah Rivkin @salliebklyn.bsky.social joins Qiological’s Michael Max to discuss translation as clinical practice where every word carries weight, diagnosis is translation, and the translator’s lens shapes both scholarship and clinical practice. www.qiological.com/language-as-...

Dr. Theresia Hofer will speak on “Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas”. 29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93) Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.

🇮🇳 This Independence Day, for the first time, 150 medicinal-plant farmers were honored as special guests in Delhi. The Ministry of Ayush hosted them, highlighting the growing role of herbal agriculture in India’s future. 🌿 indianexpress.com/article/citi...

An interesting new study compares the use of diets, medicinal materials, and preparations in the Four Medical Tantras of Tibetan Medicine and the Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya Saṃhitā of Ayurveda. The final article will be published soon but you can sign up to be notified here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha...

Cosmetic acupuncture is becoming a popular alternative to Botox and other fillers for those looking for drug-free beauty treatments, as reported by The New York Times. See link to the full story in the comments👇 What do you think of this #notox trend? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/s...

@piercesalguero.bsky.social Therapy, contemplative practice, spirituality, energy work, life-coaching, intellectual learning.... it doesn't really matter where you start, just keep going.

At the 'AI for Good' Global Summit, WHO, ITU, and WIPO released a new technical brief, mapping the application AI traditional medicine - a roadmap harnessing this potential responsibly while safeguarding cultural heritage and data sovereignty. www.who.int/news/item/11...

New study out on the history of Chinese medicine in Singapore. Congratulations Dr Yang Yan (NUS Chinese Studies). fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2025/06/...

New podcast on the potential harms of meditation. The ancient traditions and modern psychology agree - that there are risks in the practice, which should be undertaken attentively. blackberyl.substack.com/p/39-when-me...

2nd Vienna Academic Writing Workshop on 'Writing about Calamities in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Epidemics, End-of-Life Crises & Climate Disasters in Tibet and South Asia—Historical and Contemporary Perspectives'

A new study evaluated 7 large language models for TCM diagnostic and treatment performance using a real-world acupuncture case, comparing their outputs with three professional acupuncturists across five domains: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open position in South East Asian History at Nanyang Technological University. ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

New AI-driven search tool provides automated summaries about traditional medicines in scientific literature. While not comprehensive, and still black-boxed, this could be useful to kick-start new research. consensus.app/search/mecon...

New Scholarship Alert! Apply now for the Joseph Needham Foundation Awards for research on science in Asia: - Research Grant: $3,000 - Essay Prize: $500 Open to grad students, early career scholars, independent. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025 Apply: [email protected]

An interesting paper from Siddha Medicine - Standardization of the traditional Pudam process in the manufacturing of Siddha medicine Anna Pavala Chendooram by using an innovative electrical device - www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S097... doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Exciting news from Singapore MOH: 18 evidence‑based TCM proposals are under review to be integrated into public healthcare: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/he...

Don’t miss this capstone talk by Asian Medicine editor Prof Pierce Salguero @piercesalguero.bsky.social where he explores the rise of Buddhist medicine, offers advice on developing research across career stages, and shares insights on publishing in Asian Medicine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kE...