What's Health Got to Do with It?

What's Health Got to Do with It?

What's Health Got to Do with It? is a weekly talk program that examines where healthcare intersects with daily life, and will help guide the listeners through an increasingly convoluted medical bureaucracy. These days, health is a lot more than Googling the latest medical breakthrough or seeing your doctor. Staying healthy when you are well and getting healthy when you are sick means knowing how to interact and navigate an incredibly complex healthcare system.

Episodes

Vaccine rollbacks; inverted food pyramid; DIY HPV tests

January 31, 2026 • 53 mins
Our panel of medical experts discusses the month’s biggest health headlines — from a shrinking childhood vaccine schedule to a reimagined food pyramid.
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The games we play with our health

January 24, 2026 • 53 mins
What if the greatest threat to vaccines isn’t science but human psychology? We discuss how fear and misinformation are reshaping global health. Then, an app that works to sharpen focus instead of stealing it.
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Doubt in the diagnosis

January 17, 2026 • 53 mins
The hidden realities of living with inflammatory bowel disease, from navigating doubt and misdiagnoses to overcoming daily symptoms and setbacks. Then, how a personal misdiagnosis led an emergency room physician to help others advocate for themselves.
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Movement as medicine

January 10, 2026 • 53 mins
How physical therapy can help you stay strong, steady and independent as you age. Then, after suffering from heart failure and told he had only a few months to live, a man now known as “the walking guy” made movement his mission.
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Lifelong diagnoses

January 3, 2026 • 53 mins
Vaccines, Tylenol and stem cells. We cut through the headlines and myths, delving into what scientific evidence actually says about autism. Then, a biotech innovator explains how personalized medicine is reshaping breast cancer care.
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The state of American health care

December 27, 2025 • 53 mins
As 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on the state of American health care and how decisions made in congressional chambers trickle down to exam rooms.
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Hepatitis B vaccines; GLP-1 2.0; cold vs. COVID symptoms

December 26, 2025 • 53 mins
Our panel of medical experts discuss the biggest health headlines of the month from federal changes in vaccine guidance to the effect of sleep on longevity to the reinvention of weight loss drugs.
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Delivering hope: An advent of healing

December 20, 2025 • 53 mins
In a season that inspires hope, we unwrap stories of devotion — from a trailblazing children’s hospital to a patient encounter that shaped the career of a transplant nurse and inspired her advocacy work.
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Beating the odds: Patients, perspective and possibility

December 13, 2025 • 53 mins
On this week’s program, an Alzheimer’s diagnosis met with courage, curiosity and determination to change the “D” word. Then, after competing in multiple marathons and ironmans, a Navy veteran faces his toughest challenger yet — and every second counts.
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Infant botulism; listeria outbreak; hormone therapy warnings

December 6, 2025 • 53 mins
Dr. Joe Sirven and his panel of medical experts discuss this month's biggest health headlines, from a deadly listeria outbreak to the FDA’s removal of "black box" warnings on hormone replacement therapies.
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Gratitude for the mind: Celebrating what makes us human

November 29, 2025 • 53 mins
How music can reshape the brain in ways words cannot, and how art helped a Parkinson's patient steady her hands and connect to healing.
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Gratitude and grace: Together in spirit

November 22, 2025 • 53 mins
When illness tests the body, can imagination heal the spirit? We discover a place where science connects to the soul. Then, surprising ways isolation affects the brain, and how gratitude and connection can restore it.
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From discovery to delivery

November 15, 2025 • 53 mins
A former NIH director discusses the urgent need to put public health above party lines. Then, a pancreatic cancer survivor reflects on his diagnosis and the complex Whipple procedure that saved his life.
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Protecting life before and beyond birth

November 8, 2025 • 53 mins
Headaches, blurred vision and high blood pressure — how a routine checkup became a race against time for an expectant mother. Then, the toll of gun violence on American children.
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Chikungunya in NY; alcohol and dementia; ‘inflammaging’

November 1, 2025 • 53 mins
Dr. Joe Sirven and his panel of medical experts discuss this month's biggest health care headlines, from shifting trends in obesity rates to inflammation’s effect on aging.
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Veiled conditions, visible solutions

October 25, 2025 • 53 mins
From the quiet struggles of depression to new insights on a misunderstood neurological disorder — we delve into conditions that remain unseen.
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From data to diagnosis

October 18, 2025 • 52 mins
Public health data in action — turning medical metrics into health solutions. Then, coping with cancer in early adulthood.
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When seconds count: Beating the odds in brain emergencies

October 11, 2025 • 53 mins
On this week’s program, how a hidden hole in a cowboy’s heart nearly ended his rodeo career and sparked his mission to help others. Then, a physician hero at the forefront of treating life-threatening brain aneurysms.
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Vaccine guidelines; Tylenol and autism; kissing bugs

October 4, 2025 • 53 mins
Dr. Joe Sirven and his team of medical experts discuss this month's biggest health care headlines from kissing bugs to Tylenol use during pregnancy.
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When every second counts; disorderly movements

September 27, 2025 • 53 mins
A 52-year-old jogger collapses on his morning run and is found unresponsive without a pulse. How hands-only CPR saved his life. Then, a neuroscience pioneer shares her personal journey.
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