One recent afternoon, a group of students and faculty gathered in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for a workshop on “Traditional Indigenous Medicine.” As they entered the Active ...

For Marika Alvarado, being a medicine woman wasn’t a choice — it was her destiny. Born in a line of Native American medicine women, her grandmother declared her a healer at birth, and her purpose was ...

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Last fall, Dalhousie University and the National Circle for Indigenous Medical Education launched a first-of-its-kind ...

The knowledge work and art of Indigenous healers and medicine people in Alaska is being featured at the Anchorage Museum. Good Medicine is a multidisciplinary exhibit and includes paintings, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new indigenous cultural center in the Mission District hopes to bring a seldom seen art of traditional medicine to the Bay Area. Steve Darden is a Navajo Elder who was trained to be ...

"My registered name is Hemerson Dantas dos Santos, but you can add ‘Pataxó Hãhãhãi’ at the end, which is the Indigenous people I belong to." This is how the interview began, conducted by Medscape’s ...

Native American doctors are scarce. Victor Lopez-Carmen hopes to change that. Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, around the Yaqui communities, Victor Lopez-Carmen said boys in his low-income neighborhood ...

In a softly lit Shanghai bar, graduate student Helen Zhao stretched out both wrists to have her pulse taken — the first step to ordering the house special, a bespoke “health” cocktail based on ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine is gaining popularity among Malay patients in Malaysia, with growing acceptance in public ...