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.
What's Health Got to Do with It? is a weekly talk program that examines the intersection of healthcare and daily life. It helps guide listeners through an increasingly convoluted medical bureaucracy.
Whether it's accessing treatment, sustaining good health, finding the right doctor, getting insurance coverage, or seeking a cure, literally, everyone has a compelling healthcare story, and What's Health Got to Do with It? will give voice to these stories, which extend beyond medical science and the healthcare system, and extend into our daily lives.
The hour-long program is interview-based, with listener engagement via calls, emails, and social media, which will allow for the host and production team to access and create a community that is locally (and sometimes beyond)-focused and solution-driven on healthcare problems. Each episode will be based on a topic or theme, which will be examined from multiple angles.
What's Health Got to Do with It? is hosted by Dr. Joe Sirven, an engaging practicing physician journalist who is an expert in all facets of healthcare.
Dr. Joe Sirven is a Cuban American, bilingual experienced medical journalist. He has served as the chief medical contributor for NBC Latino, the English language website for Latinos by NBC News. He has previously served as the Medical commentator for KJZZ Radio in Phoenix, the NPR affiliate for Phoenix Arizona, and continues to provide commentary for KTBS TV in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is the immediate previous editor-in-chief of epilepsy.com, the world's largest consumer website dedicated to seizures and epilepsy with more than a million web visits per month. He is currently editor-in-chief of the American Academy of Neurology's consumer publication Brain & Life en Español and on the editorial board of Brain & Life.
Dr. Sirven is a practicing neurologist who has published extensively on epilepsy and its treatment. He is passionate about medical education - he has edited seven textbooks and is Chair of Education for the American Academy of Neurology. He directs the Neurology course for Mayo Medical School, Florida campus, and for Dartmouth Medical School, Mayo Florida campus. He is also a professor at Arizona State University where he teaches Science of Health Care Delivery undergraduate and master's students at Arizona State.
What's Health Got to Do with It? is provided in part by the American Brain Foundation, Neurelis and Rethreaded Inc..
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What's Health Got to Do with It?For generations, women were told to just endure menopause. But what if much of what we've believed is outdated? Then, the biggest threat to your skin may not be aging, but decades of accumulated damage. How to protect your skin for years to come. -
What's Health Got to Do with It?Can a routine eye exam reveal more about your health than just vision issues? Then, many people mistake dry eyes for seasonal allergies, but what’s really causing those itchy, burning eyes? -
What's Health Got to Do with It?Why is it becoming harder for so many women to access maternity care? Then, who decides what treatment you can receive — your doctor or insurance company? -
What's Health Got to Do with It?Our panel of medical experts discusses the month's biggest healthcare news from a rise in vaccine-preventable illnesses to an increase in alcohol consumption by pregnant women. -
What's Health Got to Do with It?On this week’s program, how decades of well-intended advice may have changed the way children's immune systems develop and how they respond to certain foods. Then, from remote villages in the South Pacific to the executive suites of a pharmaceutical company, an anthropologist shares a remarkable story of career reinvention and lifelong learning. -
What's Health Got to Do with It?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? -
What's Health Got to Do with It?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. -
What's Health Got to Do with It?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. -
What's Health Got to Do with It?From psychedelic depression treatments to an uptick in tick bites, our health experts unpack the month’s biggest medical headlines. -
What's Health Got to Do with It?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.
