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

Making health a habit

June 20, 2026 • 53 mins
Updated guidance is challenging old assumptions about cholesterol, heart disease and the use of statins. Then, a new generation of weight loss medications is changing how we think about health. But can a prescription modify habits?
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Food as medicine; Klotho gene

June 13, 2026 • 53 mins
What if food was treated like medicine — prescribed, personalized and reimbursed as part of healthcare? Then, the science behind the Klotho gene. Why researchers call it a possible “anti-aging” switch for the brain.
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Living on borrowed time

June 6, 2026 • 53 mins
Actress Annabelle Gurwitch shares how a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped her life. Then, many people hear “palliative care” and think the worst. Why that misunderstanding can prevent patients from getting the support they need most.
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Protection medicine; tick bites; covert consciousness

May 30, 2026 • 53 mins
From psychedelic depression treatments to an uptick in tick bites, our health experts unpack the month’s biggest medical headlines.
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Care beyond the battlefield

May 23, 2026 • 53 mins
For a special Memorial Day program, we examine how veterans navigate the complexities of the healthcare system, and we highlight the critical need for specialized care for service members after service ends.
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The heart and brain connection

May 16, 2026 • 51 mins
We explore the connection between the heart and brain — how an irregular cardiac rhythm can increase the risk of stroke and how even simple movement like walking can protect the brain.
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Motherhood unscripted

May 9, 2026 • 53 mins
Adoption is often framed as a selfless and courageous act, but is it truly a choice made by birth mothers or a result of policy and inequality? Then, she’s known for her on-screen work like "Jurassic Park" and "Big Little Lies," but off camera Laura Dern’s most epic role was caregiving for her mother, though it was not without a plot twist.
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Fertility rates drop; 'smart' contact lenses; menopause awareness

May 2, 2026 • 53 mins
Our medical experts discuss the month’s biggest health headlines, from falling fertility rates to violence against health care workers.
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Surviving a stroke

April 25, 2026 • 53 mins
Nearly 2 million brain cells die each minute a stroke remains untreated. We break down the biggest advances in stroke care and what survivors can teach us about resilience.
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Invisible patients

April 18, 2026 • 53 mins
How race, identity and weight shape patient care — and what happens when medical professionals get it wrong.
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Donating life

April 11, 2026 • 53 mins
Most Americans have never donated plasma — but for some, it’s the difference between life and death. Then, a stranger’s final act became her new beginning. The human side of organ donation, told by someone living it.
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Fine air pollution; rectal cancer; synthetic peptides

April 4, 2026 • 53 mins
From fine air pollution to an outbreak of sexually transmitted ringworm, our health experts unpack the month’s biggest medical headlines.
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The art of caregiving

March 28, 2026 • 53 mins
Caregivers turn their experience into art. An author illuminates the realities many child caretakers face, and a filmmaker revisits his past through the lens of his family’s decade-long caregiving journey.
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Humanizing health care

March 21, 2026 • 53 mins
The U.S. spends more on health care than any nation, so why do so many American patients feel lost in the system? Then, could ALS finally become a treatable disease?
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Foreign physicians, American medicine

March 14, 2026 • 53 mins
Immigrant physicians are the backbone of the U.S. health system. What happens if that pipeline weakens? Then, a retired oncologist traces his path from a small village in Bangladesh to the front lines of American medicine.
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Protecting children

March 7, 2026 • 53 mins
How simple, early conversations about boundaries, secrets and trust can help prevent childhood sexual abuse. Then, a rare brain disorder sparks a parent-led global research movement.
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Heart disease in women; vitamin B6 toxicity; Nipah virus

February 28, 2026 • 53 mins
Medical experts discuss the month’s biggest health headlines — from heart disease risk in women to a new genetics study sure to affect how mental health is treated in the future.
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Medicine 3.0

February 21, 2026 • 53 mins
Medicine redesigned. Can a new kind of medical training fix health care? Then, from reactive medicine to proactive health, how disease prevention transforms lives.
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Loving and protecting the human heart

February 14, 2026 • 53 mins
Give your heart the love it deserves — what sleep habits and stress levels reveal about your heart’s health. Then, after living with heart failure and surviving two heart transplants, a songwriter uses music to inspire hope in others.
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The stories drugs can tell

February 7, 2026 • 53 mins
On this week’s program, how prescription drugs can be used as a window into much larger questions about medicine, culture and uncertainty. Then, from daily pills to long-acting injections, a doctor explains why HIV prevention isn’t one-size-fits-all.
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