Over the Counter: Live healthier now and later

A recent study sponsored by the United Health Foundation indicated that 40 percent (2 of every 5) of those living in the United States may be obese by 2018.

Dr. Jeff Hersh: Chronic lower-back pain may be disc herniation or synovial cyst

Q: One of my relatives has had lower-back pain, and they diagnosed her with a synovial cyst. They tried to put a needle in it to take out the fluid, and now they want to do surgery. What is this disease, and is surgery the right answer?

Dr. Murray Feingold: What's in a medical name?

What’s in a name you may ask? Well, to many people a great deal, especially when the name relates to some type of medical condition.

Dr. Michael Jones: Get moving with your arthritis

The best advice I can give for arthritis-related pain is to get up and get moving. Staying active and using your joints helps to keep them lubricated and prevents further breakdown and arthritis from setting in.

Dr. Carol Bauer: Tinnitus is a troubling hearing condition described as ringing in the ears

An estimated 36 million Americans experience a chronic phantom sound in their ears, known as tinnitus. The sound is perceived either in the head or in the ears in the absence of any external source of sound.

Linda Castor: Resolve to slay your dragon this year

We keep reading or hearing the words “perfect,” “best” or “success” as ways to define ourselves and how we should start the new year. It’s a lot to live up to. And, frankly, it can be quite overwhelming.

Wayne L. Westcott: Does electrical muscle stimulation add to strength?

We recently conducted two studies on increasing muscle strength and decreasing muscle fatigue that compared strength training alone and strength training plus electrical stimulation.

Conservation poster awards announced, animals petted

The Kiowa County Conservation District handed out awards for its student poster contest on Tuesday morning at the Kiowa County Schools. Great Bend-Brit Spaugh Zoo Director Scott Gregory also brought along some of his animals to the delight of county students.

Wrestlers place, but have tough weekend

Greensburg Recreation Wrestlers Mason Dean and Gage McDonald traveled to Tulsa, Ok. last weekend to compete in the Tulsa Nationals Wrestling competition with more than 2,000 other wrestlers from forty states.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 'Dear Disillusioned Non-resident'

The tree must stay? After reading your letter to the editor, I must admit, it sparked a fire in me.

EDUCATOR Q&A: Kim McMurry

Kim McMurry, Kiowa County High School

THE RAIL: Week of January 30, 2012

Lessons from Cancer: Love is divine

My focus on love these days has been catapulted to the highest reaches because of living with a terminal illness. Although I had a chance of cure when I was first diagnosed with cancer, that isn’t the case now, according to the doctors. So I’m going for a miracle and at the very least, stability and control of the lung cancer with good quality of life as I learn to live with it as a chronic disease while I still pray that the pancreas cancer doesn’t come back.

PHOTOS: Twilight Theater construction

The Twilight Theater construction crew puts up the massive prefabricated conrete walls last week.

RetroActive raises $1200 for West family with benefit concert

Immediately following the total destruction of the Cody West family’s farmhouse, Haley Kern helped to organize a benefit concert to raise money for the West family.

FAITH & VALUES: ‘Oh how true this is with life, if we just weren't in a rush.’

Sometimes it feels like things take a really long time.  When you are anxious, nothing goes fast enough.  So, how do we enjoy the process when the process takes too long?  In other words, how do we enjoy our time when time seems to take too much of our time?

'Budget… to relieve financial stress!'

A budget is the master plan for managing your money. It is important because it keeps you in control of your spending instead of letting your spending control how you live. Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of your money.

CLUB NOTES: Hospital Auxiliary has new Officers for 2012

The regular meeting of the KCMH Auxiliary took place Wednesday, January 11th with eight members and our guest speaker present.

Pharmacy will open on February 1st

Starting on the first day of February, area residents will be able to fill their prescriptions locally thanks to a 40-year pharmacy veteran and an innovative new machine that might be the pharmacist of the future.

City reboots public records ordinance, will address electronic transmission

Stemming from a request for public records submitted by The Signal, Interim City Administrator Jay Newton on Monday presented the city council and Mayor Bob Dixson with a new public records ordinance, which Newton described as “more nearly representing actual costs [to the city for public records requests].”

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