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The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) is a weekly medical journal, renowned for the publication of high-quality peer-reviewed research and reviews from around the world. In the weekly podcasts our editors discuss highlights of the current issue, including interviews with authors of key articles to provide context and insight to advancements in medicine and health worldwide.

• Listen to The Lancet: 25 October
  Ludwig Kappos discusses a phase II study which suggests that oral fumarate may have a future role in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
• Listen to The Lancet: China Series
  China Series podcast: Listen to Bill Summerskill from The Lancet, and China's Minister of Health, Chen Zhu.
• Listen to The Lancet: 18 October
  Stephen Silberstein discusses recent developments in migraine research, including associations with cardiovascular disease, genetic associations, and future research priorities.
• Listen to The Lancet: 11 October
  Listen to Vikram Patel in this week's podcast and visit the website of the Movement for Global Mental Health for further information.
• Listen to The Lancet: 04 October
  The Roll Back Malaria partnership is 10-years old this month. An Editorial discusses the history and future of the partnership in light of their recently announced Global Malaria Business Plan to fund US $3 billion to tackle the disease; a podcast explores the implications.
• Listen to The Lancet: 27 September
  An Editorial assesses the health-care policies of the two US presidential candidates, discussed by Faith McLellan in this week's podcast.
• Listen to The Lancet: 20 September
  Professor Richard Beasley discusses in a podcast results of the ISAAC-3 study, suggesting a strong association between paracetamol use in infancy and increased risk of asthma by age 6-7 years.
• Listen to The Lancet: 13 September
  Joy Lawn from Save the Children explains the origins and current progress in international health since the signing of the Alma-Ata Declaration 30 years ago.
• Listen to The Lancet: 06 September
  Bill Summerskill reports from the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Munich, Germany, where a number of research articles were recently presented.
• Listen to The Lancet: 30 August
  A study assesses whether introduction of The Quality and Outcomes Framework has reduced health-care inequality between affluent and poorer areas in England. Author Tim Doran discusses more in this week's podcast.
• Listen to The Lancet: 23 August
  Laurent Lantieri discusses successful facial transplantation of a man with severe neurofibroma.
• Listen to The Lancet: 16 August
  Interview with Dr van't Hof on tirofiban administered in the ambulance setting after myocardial infarction.
• Listen to The Lancet: 09 August
  Chants from HIV activists, the launch of The Lancet HIV prevention series, and the voice of a former US President: a round-up of audio highlights from the XVII World AIDS meeting in Mexico City.
• Listen to The Lancet: 02 August
  Emily Chan discusses her personal experiences as a medical doctor assisting in the relief effort after the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
• Listen to The Lancet: 26 July
  Pam Das and Sally Hargreaves discuss highlights from the July 26 issue of The Lancet and the August issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases ahead of the World AIDS meeting in Mexico next month.
• Listen to The Lancet: 19 July
  Risk markers of coronary heart disease: apolipoproteins and cholesterol as indices of risk for myocardial infarction are assessed in a large case-control study, and discussed in a podcast.
• Listen to The Lancet: 12 July
  Malaria prevention: children in a high transmission area, western Kenya, were given intermittent preventative treatment and assessed for anaemia and school-related outcomes. Author Sian Clarke (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) discusses the research findings in a podcast.
• Listen to The Lancet: 05 July
  A new care package — 'Depression Care for People with Cancer' (DCPC) — can reduce depression in cancer patients and is cost-effective in improving quality of life compared with current cancer treatments. Michael Sharpe, University of Edinburgh, UK, discusses the new research findings in a podcast.
• Listen to The Lancet: 28 June
  Improving access to water, sanitation, and hygiene is discussed in this week's lead Editorial and podcast. A new WHO report highlights how 10% of the global disease burden could be reduced by improved access to water and sanitation and by a staggering 15% in the 32 worst affected countries.
• Listen to The Lancet: 21 June
  Drug-eluting stents revolutionised interventional cardiology owing to their pronounced ability to reduce restenosis compared with bare-metal stents. Attention has now shifted to safety of these devices because of evidence suggesting an association with late stent thrombosis. In a review, Anthony Bavry and Deepak Bhatt assess current evidence from randomised trials, and propose guidelines for the appropriate use of drug-eluting stents in clinical practice. Deepak Bhatt discusses the history of stents and assesses our current knowledge and considers treatment options for cardiologists and patients in this week's podcast.
• Listen to The Lancet: 14 June
  In this week's podcast, David Shlim from Jackson Hole Travel Centre, Wyoming, USA, assesses the phase II study of Frech and colleagues suggesting that a skin patch could have therapeutic value in protecting against the most common cause of travellers' diarrhoea, that caused by the pathogen enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
• Listen to The Lancet: 07 June
  A review highlights how moderate hypothermia - reducing core body temperature to around 35C - is underused in clinical practice after traumatic events such as heart attack, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. Author Kees Polderman discusses the potential of moderate hypothermia in this week's podcast.
• Listen to The Lancet: 31 May
  In this week's podcast, editor Sally Hargreaves talks to the author of a Research Article published early online on sudden unexplained death in infants (SUDI). Although sudden infant death remains one of the most common presentations of post-neonatal infant death in the UK, there still remain numerous theories about its cause. Dr Neil Sebire from the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK, discusses with Sally key findings and implications of the study. Researchers found high levels of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli bacteria in post-mortem samples from unexplained cases of SUDI, suggesting that these bacteria could be associated with the condition.
• Listen to The Lancet: 24 May
  A staggering quarter of a billion people worldwide have diabetes, with this figure set to rise to 380 million by 2025. In this week's podcast, Jane Godsland discusses many of the topics in the May 24-30 diabetes issue of The Lancet: research showing that intensive insulin therapy given early after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes can reverse disease progression; public-health interventions in a Chinese population study highlighting how appropriate diet and exercise can delay the onset of diabetes; and discussion of other research, reviews, and diabetes content in this week's Perspectives section of the journal.
• Listen to The Lancet: 17 May
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