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Charles Leslie Prize Honouring Charles Leslie and the roots he planted in Asian medicine. For young and senior scholars, practitioners, and early-career voices send your original piece. Submit by Sept 1, 2026. iastam.org/awards/

Dear colleagues! @piercesalguero invites you to contribute to Asian Medicine Zone asianmedicinezone.com/?fbclid=IwY2xj… Short notes, reflections, or video essays on Asian medicine are welcome from scholars at different stages of their careers. Interested? Get in touch!

3rd National Sorig Conference with the theme “Research, Innovation and Evidence-Based Practice in Sowa Rigpa” ཞིབ་འཚོལ་དང་གསར་གཏོད་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་ལྡན་པའི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་ལག་ལེན། Date: 15-16 of May Organized by: Faculty of Traditional Medicine, KGUMSB facebook.com/NangpaiSorigLo…

The HCCA Lecture Series rolls out something special — a live online launch for Crafting Potency A journey through Sowa Rigpa medicine-making across the Himalayas 🗓 Apr 29, 2026 ⏰ 6–8pm CET 💻 Live on Zoom #success" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/69355717971?… hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1…

Please register for and attend Choi Sung-woons' talk on the Royal Medical System in Choson Dynasty Korea-including a comparison with Qing China medical literature. Please click on the link for details including registration. chosonhistorysociety.org/events?fbclid=…

Visit the Li-Fu Museum of Chinese Medicine (立夫中醫藥博物館) in Taichung, where the current exhibition Beauty & Cosmetics in Chinese Medicine (中醫美容與化妝展覽) explores how traditional herbs and practices connect beauty, skincare, and health across time.

Next week, IASTAM council member @LanAngelaLi will give a talk at Nanyang Technological University. Register here: ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-event…

This paper is on developing Clinical Practice Guidelines for Ayurveda, a relatively unexplored area of work. Earlier a group of authors had argued for the urgent need for CPGs in Ayurveda- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40886521/ This article is in follow up to that sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Dr Gao Shanshan (高珊珊)'s thesis: Forging a Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine in the Early People’s Republic of China: An Examination of Wuxing 新中國中醫基礎理論的構建：以五行為中心 The link may load slowly, but it is functional: lbms03.cityu.edu.hk/theses/c_ftt/p…

Introducing the latest issue of Asian Medicine: brill.com/view/journals/…

Dr Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira @spiritualscien6 will be at NTU for the seminar: "The Power Within: Trance States and Mental Healing in 20th-Century East Asia" -26 March 2026, 1:30-3 PM For online participants: Join us via Microsoft Teams by scanning the QR code.

An Interesting article - Wellness or medicine? Use and perception of Ayurveda in Germany: data from an online-representative cross-sectional study - frontiersin.org/journals/medic…

Invitation to the 2nd Vienna Sowa Rigpa Dialogues event of 2026: A project presentation and discussion with Dr. Katharina Sabernig on Trees of Knowledge Date: March 19, 2026 Time: 3:30 – 5:00 pm CET Join via Zoom: ID 640 3102 1911, Code 765836 stb.univie.ac.at/news-events/de…

Chinese medicine is having a moment: “When Americans don’t trust their own institutions, media or political class, they become more willing to look for alternative reference points”. Read the full article here: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

"From a health-systems perspective, integration is not a single decision or event." -Holger Cramer, JICM Editorial #bibr12-27683605261416762" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

A visual summary of the latest issue of Asian Medicine! Click below to read it online. brill.com/view/journals/…

Nine months after the sudden passing of the talented historian of Chinese medicine, Hao Chen 陳昊 (1983–2025), his posthumous work: The Return of Longing: Knowledge, Emotion, and the “Yuan-Bai Moment” in Chinese Medical History, was published by Shanghai Guji Publishing House.

Forthcoming in-person lecture

For decades, Singapore’s Chinese community has turned to acupuncture treatments, barley water and herbal remedies not only to boost healing and wellness, but also to cope with the hot weather. straitstimes.com/singapore/envi…

China launches new wave of research into TCM herbal injections. The research initiative looks to transform the practice away from compounds to simpler formulas: www-nature-com.remotexs.ntu.edu.sg/articles/s4159…