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What's Health Got to Do with It?
Saturdays at 4 p.m.
Hosted by Dr. Joe Sirven

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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Latest Episodes
  • Protecting children
    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.
  • Dr. Jose Posas, practicing neurologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; Dr. Donna G. Ivery, OB/GYN and author of Not Your Granny’s Menopause; Chad Neilsen, director of infection prevention and control at Nemours Children’s Health in Florida
    Heart disease in women; vitamin B6 toxicity; Nipah virus
    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.
  • Medicine 3.0
    Medicine redesigned. Can a new kind of medical training fix health care? Then, from reactive medicine to proactive health, how disease prevention transforms lives.
  • Loving and protecting the human heart
    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.
  • The stories drugs can tell
    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.
  • Dr. Amy Hessler, neurologist at Universal Neurological Care; Dr. Tina Ardon, practicing family physician at Mayo Clinic in Florida; Chad Neilsen, director of infection prevention and control at Nemours Children’s Health in Florida
    Vaccine rollbacks; inverted food pyramid; DIY HPV tests
    Our panel of medical experts discusses the month’s biggest health headlines — from a shrinking childhood vaccine schedule to a reimagined food pyramid.
  • The games we play with our health
    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.
  • Doubt in the diagnosis
    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.
  • Movement as medicine
    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.
  • Lifelong diagnoses
    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.