IT'S been exciting watching recent elections and noticing trends and impacts that may be relevant for us in Malaysia.

Leprosy is still present in Malaysia, but it can be easily treated before it reaches the advanced stages with significant skin lesions.

IT IS clear as daylight by now that Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli is not only fighting Nurul Izzah Anwar for the No 2 party post, he is fighting the PKR hierarchy.

​​​​​​​THIS will be my 10th column on a topic I wish I could ignore but simply cannot – the global plastic scourge.

IT WAS a Super Sunday for every football fan – if you consider football in totality and not just the Premier League.

But our columnist is not taking it without fighting back, he's going to work out and eat well and ... even get glasses! Oh my.

BATTLING Alzheimer's in his twilight years, Ronald Reagan was often found responding to familiar songs, sometimes singing along or tapping his foot, as the disease chipped away at the cognitive ability of the 40th US president.

Displaying drug prices appears to be a straightforward move, but it may trigger other consequences that affect our access to healthcare.

MANY foreigners have misguided impressions of Malaysia –something that quickly changes once they set foot in the country and see for themselves.

ON May 6, hundreds of doctors, mostly dressed in black, gathered at the Prime Minister's Office in Putrajaya in a peaceful protest against the use of a non-medical Act to ensure compliance to the medicine price display law.

FOR the longest time, the race riots that began on this day 56 years ago and shook a still fledgeling nation to the core was a taboo subject.

Although we are exposed to the sun all year round, a surprising number of Malaysians have insufficient vitamin D, the "sunshine" vitamin.