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Health Matters - March 16, 2024: Dr. Fred Buckhold, Dr. Alex Garza, Dr. Linda Richardson, Dr. Elisa Port, & Dr. Marc Siegel

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1. Dr. FRED BUCKHOLD, SLU Care General Internist at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, and a professor of medicine at St. Louis University School of Medicine. What's his opinion of a newly approved continuous glucose monitor device?  What's he think about a new study that shows excess use of Vitamin B3 is linked to increased risk of heart disease?  A new study finds exercise treats depression as well as therapy.  What's Dr. Buckhold think about that?
2. Dr. ALEX GARZA, SSM Health Chief Community Health Officer -- and co-leader of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force.  It's been four years since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic.  How is the COVID of 2024 changed from the COVID of 2019?  Are we better prepared now to handle the next pandemic?  What lessons have we learned? How bad is COVID-19 right now
3. Dr. LINDA RICHARDSON, director of the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.  March is National Colorectal Cancer Screening Month.  What are the current trends regarding colon cancer?  Why are more younger people getting it?  How important is screening to early detection? When should screening begin?  What types of colon cancer screening tests are there?  
4. Dr. ELISA PORT, chief of Breast Surgery at Mt. Sinai Health System in New York.  Actress Olivia Munn revealed this past week that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and underwent four surgeries in the last 10 months, including a double mastectomy.  She was diagnosed with an aggressive form in both breasts, despite testing negative for all cancer genes in a genetic test and having just had a normal mammogram.  She only found her cancer because her OBGYN calculated her Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score at 37-percent and ordered more testing.  What is that test?  Also --  Dr. MARC SIEGEL, FOX News Chief Medical Correspondent, on the measles outbreak in Chicago -- where most of the cases were diagnosed at a migrant shelter.  Dr. Siegel says it's all about herd immunity. 

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