Keep the goodness and vitamins, but wash away the pesticides and chemicals.

In the light-hearted spirit of the season, here's an easy-peasy, offbeat guide to staying healthy - our way of kicking off a brand new lunar year of wellness and wellbeing.

Cancer treatment can be more beneficial and efficient when Western medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners understand each other better.

KUALA LUMPUR: Several vital organs and tissues were harvested from four cadaveric donors since last week, but no heart could be used for mechanical heart patient Winnie Chen who is on standby for a heart transplant since August 2008.

THE Malaysian Rare Disorders Society is appealing to corporations and individuals for donations to set up a Foundation on Rare Diseases.

FITNESS First organised the International Fitness Week 2010, which ends tomorrow, at all its gyms in the Klang Valley to encourage people to be a fitter and more active place.

Pelvic floor disorders are caused by pelvic floor muscles becoming weak or the ligaments and tissues becoming stretched or damaged.

NAMED after the gazelle springbok, one of the fastest creatures in Africa, Reebok today is as American as they come. Few realise that it is, in fact, an English import.

When is your office not an office? When it is a gym, playground, football field, running track, basketball court and sports centre rolled into one!

Is the deadliest of the seven sins gluttony?

Time is not always on our side and we can never predict the future with any level of certainty. So stop taking life for granted and live each day to the fullest.

Young people need comprehensive sexuality education and other interventions to enable them to acquire the knowledge and skills to make the right choices that are appropriate to their needs.

THE most common reaction for most people first diagnosed with Parkinson's disease would be one of disbelief. This would quickly progress to denial. Family members and friends would also be equally affected by the news.

The various issues associated with Parkinson's disease.

Hey, lazy bones, get up and work out!

Understand more about one of the most common pain conditions we suffer - back pain.

The theme for World AIDS Day 2009 this year is Universal Access and Human Rights. The efforts continue to ensure universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care. We have to recognise and accept that these are fundamental human rights.

Dec 1 is World AIDS Day and there's lots you can do about it.

Being certain that they have never engaged in behaviour that could infect them with HIV is one reason why Malaysians do not get tested and seek counselling for the disease.

Some are preventable, while others can be treated without any risk to the foetus.

Nutrition for healthy bones.

The prevention of cervical cancer has to be carried out by various measures, all of which are necessary if we are to achieve the success of many developed countries in reducing the incidence and mortality from cervical cancer.

One may fear death because of the pain of leaving family, friends, and a familiar environment behind. However, is it fear of death per se or is it in fact the uncertainty of what comes after which is of primary concern?

Things you need to know about diabetes.

Twins may look identical from the outside, but the same observation cannot be applied to their personalities.

Eight out of every 10 obese individuals usually have fatty liver disease.

We need to make drastic changes to improve the health of all Malaysians.