Man meets biggest superstar

Gerald tells NewsChannel 32, “His vibrant personality is so charming, capturing, and magnetic. You feel like you’ve known him all your life, even the first time you meet him.”

Gerald met Tommy more than forty years ago, but they are reuniting today, because he wanted Tommy to give him the highlights of his life.

Tommy says, “I don’t have words to tell you how excited I am to be with him.”

Their first stop is the Stephens County Historical Museum that Tommy is featured in.

Some of Gerald’s fondest memories are when Tommy took his medicine show on the road.

Gerald adds, “All three were always talking at the same time and telling me wonderful stories. I sat there with my head going from one side to another, and he was entertaining me like I’ve never been entertained in my life.” Read more

Chances are, cholesterol pill is of little help of medicine

Heart disease is a major killer in the United States. Let’s say I could give you a pill to prevent a heart attack. You would need to take the pill every day for five years at a cost of $3,000. Would you take it? Most would.

But now, let’s say that the pill actually prevented a heart attack in one of every 67 people who took the pill for five years. That is, 66 people would take the pill and get no benefit — only one would benefit, and we can’t predict which person that would be. Would you take the pill? This time, you need to think carefully and weigh the pros and cons.

Well, this is exactly the type of information you need to know when choosing any treatment, but particularly when thinking about taking a medicine to reduce cholesterol.

Jenny is a healthy 50-year-old with no history of heart disease Read more

Keetley saves Medicine Hat

Just when it seemed most fans were doubting him, Medicine Hat Tigers goaltender Matt Keetley came through with his most clutch performance of the season.

Keetley made 27 saves as the Tigers nabbed a 4-0 victory over the Red Deer Rebels Friday in Game 5 of the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference quarter-final series.

The win gives the Tigers 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series, and they can close it out with a Game 6 victory Sunday in Red Deer.

It was the second time in the playoffs Keetley bounced back from a tough outing. He earned a 5-0 shutout victory in Game 2 after tending goal in a 6-2 loss in Game 1. He also took heat after the Tigers lost Game 4 by a 6-4 count Wednesday in Red Deer. Read more

These 20 ideas for permanent weight loss

The principles are essentially the same: Eat healthy foods, control your portion sizes and exercise regularly. And to keep the pounds off permanently, you need to incorporate the new, healthy behaviors into your routine so that they become a natural part of your daily life.

Weight maintenance is much like weight loss. Here are 20 ideas to reinforce your healthy lifestyle and to keep you committed to permanent weight loss.

1. Focus on fruits and vegetables. Top off your morning cereal with sliced strawberries or bananas. Stir berries or peaches in yogurt or cottage cheese. Liven up your sandwiches with vegetables, such as tomato, lettuce, onion, peppers and cucumber.

2. Exercise 30 to 60 minutes each day. If time is limited, exercise for several brief periods throughout the day — for example, three 10-minute sessions rather than one 30-minute session. Read more

Program for healthy eating by offer girls recipe

Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region, the Junior League of Albany, a pediatrician and Sokol have teamed up to expose adolescent girls to healthy food. Chef Gail Sokol and her young helpers will mix almonds, oatmeal, wheat germ, honey and maple syrup for homemade granola.

Then, they’ll puree tofu for an Alfredo sauce and cube bread and veggies for panzanella, which is an Italian salad.

It’s not your typical children’s menu, but that is the point.

“We are really trying to show the kids that they don’t need fatty snacks,” Sokol said.

The “Kids in the Kitchen” program will be held Saturday at Girls Inc. on Western Avenue. In addition to preparing the meal with Sokol, the girls will listen Read more

Scientists invent cutting for medicine

It all sounds like something from a science fiction movie, not the stuff being invented in a lab at Wits University. Substances that can re-arrange the cells in your cheeks, and doughnut-shaped tablets that stick to the back of your eyes?

Professor Viness Pillay isn’t an old man in a white coat. He is a young, smart-looking “suit” who doesn’t look at pharmacy in the traditional sense.

He isn’t concentrating on creating new drugs, but looking at ways the ones we already have can be enhanced and delivered in a way which means less cost and no pain.

Pillay says very few scientists here are working on drug-delivery design, yet he and his team have come up with six inventions in the space of four years, for much less than they would cost overseas. Read more

Research Mosquito spit of Malaria Vaccine

A study conducted on mice shows that it is possible to use mosquito saliva as protection against the disease malaria. Study by University of Notre Dame in Indiana Researchers have claimed that exposure to the saliva of a mosquito can protect us from malaria. The saliva of a sand fly is being experimented on to be used as a vaccine to the skin disease, Leishmanias. Studies show that if the components of an infected mosquito that gives defense can be broken down to simpler compounds, they can be used to enhance vaccines for malaria.

It is seen that people in Africa or Middle East have greater immunity towards these diseases as compared to people from other parts of the world. ‘In some areas people can get up to a thousand mosquito bites a day. That’s a lot of mosquito spit,’ New Scientist quoted Mary Ann McDowell, an Immunoparasitologist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, as saying.

The test conducted showed that the mice exposed Read more

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