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What"s Health Got to Do with It?

WJCT Public Media

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.

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All Episodes

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Loving and protecting the human heart

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2026/02/14

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

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2026/02/07

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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Vaccine rollbacks; inverted food pyramid; DIY HPV tests

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2026/01/31

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

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2026/01/24

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

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2026/01/17

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

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2026/01/10

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

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2026/01/03

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

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2025/12/27

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

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2025/12/26

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

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2025/12/20

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

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2025/12/13

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...

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2025/12/06

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

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2025/11/29

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

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2025/11/22

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

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2025/11/15

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

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2025/11/08

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’

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2025/11/01

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

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2025/10/25

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

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2025/10/18

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...

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2025/10/11

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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