What's Health Got to Do with It?
Saturdays at 4 p.m.
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.
Latest Episodes
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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. -
Our medical experts discuss the month’s biggest health headlines, from falling fertility rates to violence against health care workers. -
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. -
How race, identity and weight shape patient care — and what happens when medical professionals get it wrong. -
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. -
From fine air pollution to an outbreak of sexually transmitted ringworm, our health experts unpack the month’s biggest medical headlines. -
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. -
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? -
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. -
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.
