Kidney disease can strike at any age, but early detection of the warning signs can prevent it. In this episode, you’ll meet Artie McBride with Community Health and Emergency Services (CHESI) with all the details about the upcoming FREE Kidney & Diabetes Screening event in Cairo, Illinois on May 20; sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois. Even if you can’t make this event, you’ll still want to listen and share.

March is Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Awareness Month. In this episode, you’ll meet Dr. Jonathan Walters and Alicia Paris, both with Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis, IL, who’ll share with you your options for screening and what to expect should a colonoscopy be on your to-do list for this year. We’ll also learn about their upcoming Colon Cancer Awareness Luncheon to be held later this month.

In this episode of the Southern 7 Podcast, we’re talking with Allie Baum with the Ad Council and Colleen Creighton with Brady: United Against Gun Violence and what these groups are doing to reduce gun violence nationwide, and what you can do to ensure that your family stays safe if you are a gun owner and have firearms in your home. We want to make perfectly clear that we are not talking about gun control, just overall gun safety in the home.