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About 5,000 pharmacists protested in Taipei against a new policy allowing non-licensed individuals to sell traditional Chinese medicine after completing 35 credits. Pharmacists say it lowers standards, while officials argue it supports the industry.
focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...
American tariffs are disrupting the TCM market and slowing the flow of herbal ingredients from China to the U.S. Prices are expected to keep rising, significantly impacting both practitioners and patients.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/b...
The Korean Society for the Philosophy of Medicine (한국의철학회) is organizing a spring conference on May 24, 2025, at Yonsei University in Seoul.
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Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
New Issue: Asian Medicine, Volume 20!
Highlights include Maarten Bode on “Revitalizing Ayurveda,” Kenneth Zysk’s Basham Medal Address, articles by Colin Garon & Arthur Erqi Cheng, essays by Lan A. Li, Stephan Kloos & Bernard Coops, plus 10 book reviews.
Read more: brill.com/.../journals...
Always great to meet our authors in the wild! Thanks #aahm2025
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social’s book is out in paperback next month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191120/
Blogpost by earlier IASTAM president Volker Scheid, and Cinzia Scorzon.
www.volkerscheid.net/post/on-dosing
Artemisia or wormwood can be found all over the world. In East Asian herbal medicine it's used to stop bleeding, treat pain, and dispel itching. Leaves can be eaten fresh and used for moxibustion therapy. #asianmedicine #moxibustion #yomogi #herbalmedicine #EastAsianMedicine
28.04.2025 02:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre (GTMC) organizes a keynote plenary panel, "Restoring balance: Scaling up access to evidence-based traditional medicine for health and well-being" at the World Health Summit (WHS) Regional Meeting on Friday, 25 April 2025. www.who.int/news-room/ev...
29.04.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Birch bark smol. n° 11, written in runic Old Norse
Birch bark documents are fascinating for many reasons, among them the languages they are written in. Most are written in a colloquial Slavic language, and there is also the oldest attestation of Finnic (n° 292) and one document in runic Old Norse (Smol. n° 11)! Here's the Old Norse document: 1/3
17.02.2025 00:34 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes.
The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds.
This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen
Oh, take care!
17.02.2025 03:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dear math historians;
Karine Chemla is organising a seminar on the Historipgraphy of Mathematical Symbolism in Feb, April, May and June this year.
www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/IMG/pdf/hist...
As well as a conference in September
www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/IMG/pdf/2025...
The latest issue of East Asian Science Technology and Medicine is out, with articles on Japanese survey of Korean materia medica, and early concepts of state hygiene in Japanese Goto Shimpei.
brill.com/view/journal...
We are gearing up to start meetup zooms of info and education from our Guest Speakers! Come join us and meetup! www.meetup.com/ayurveda-ess...
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New book series seek submissions:
Medica: Studies in Pre-Modern Health and Healing (Routledge) is a multi-disciplinary book series that encourages and promotes scholarship in the long history of health, healing, and medicine from the Ancient World to 1800.
t.co/dE6AtYyc8l
It looks like this journal is a new account on bluesky. Following it would be a good thing.
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Great new issue out from Asian Medicine, the journal of @iastam.bsky.social! Really attests to the diversity of our membership and the reach of Asian Medicine as research concept.
Congratulations!
#digitalhumanities #dh #teaching #plagiarism @digitalorientalist.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social
06.12.2024 09:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks to @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social for great posts keeping us updated!
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New AI research tools for Teachers:
This lists new AI research tools which faculty should be aware of for plagiarism, and to teach to students.
Suggests how to counter AI plagiarism - make a required assessment that students journal and reflect on their AI usage.
www.academia.edu/126102542/Ne...
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30.11.2024 16:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Paul Buell and Gene Anderson have a volume on Yuan medical transmissions out a couple years ago, might have some answers there...
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Whaaaat? But corporations are people too! And their one vote counts more bcoz $$.
25.11.2024 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What did Taiwan do to pizza?
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