About four decades ago, fresh out of a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) college, Hou Wei chose a career path with an uncertain outlook, namely treating cancer with TCM.

Public Health Minister Pattana Promphat has presided over the opening ceremony of a new Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine Center in Chachoengsao province, expanding healthcare access across the eastern region.

The global market for medicinal plants is projected to expand from about 230 billion USD in 2021 to over 430 billion USD by 2028, with annual growth exceeding 11%, driven by rising demand for natural products.

A research team led by Lu Jiahong, deputy director of the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMS) at the University of Macau (UM), in collaboration with Hangzhou MindRank AI Technology Co Ltd and Imperial College London in the UK, has developed an AI platform that integrates a million-compound library and multiple predictive modules for the discovery of bioactive ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and natural products. The team used the platform for virtual screening, followed by cross-species experimental validation, to identify small-molecule TCM compounds with therapeutic potential for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The findings have been published in the top-tier international journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.

including joint medical programme recognised by China and Portugal

Suzana Carvalho, a resident in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, stood before a robot that looked like a sleek vending unit. About five minutes later, she smiled holding a steaming cup of herbal beverage tailored to improve her health condition after accepting a brief scan and answering a list of questions from the robot.

At some point in the last few years, a smooth stone or a jade roller became as standard on the bathroom shelf as moisturiser. Both gua sha tools and face rollers have had their moment in the spotlight on TikTok, with before-and-after videos promising sculpted jawlines, deflated under-eyes and a luminosity that no serum could apparently match. The questions are reasonable: do they actually work? And if so, which one works better?