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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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Donating life

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2026/04/11

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

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2026/04/04

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

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2026/03/28

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

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2026/03/21

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

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2026/03/14

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

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2026/03/07

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

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2026/02/28

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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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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