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This week's podcast features an interview with Professor Ian Smith from the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK, one of the authors of the HERA trial.

This week's podcast includes an interview with Christopher Murray from Harvard University, one of the authors of the research article estimating 62 million deaths from a future influenza pandemic.

This week's podcast includes an interview with Professor Peter Tyrer, author of the seminar about generalised anxiety disorder, a chronic psychological condition affecting up to 1 in 8 people.

This week's podcast includes a discussion of the lead editorial about the Democratic Party's victory in the US mid-term elections; also an interview about screening mammography for younger women.

This week's podcast highlights the IMAGE study, a randomised trial assessing the effect of micro-financing and education for women in rural South Africa to reduce intimate partner violence and HIV infection.

In this week's podcast Kay Wellings from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses teenage pregnancy in England.

This week's podcast features the research article about increased condom use among young women in sub-Saharan Africa.

A themed issue of The Lancet pegged to world Diabetes Day on Nov 14 is the focus of this week's podcast.

Richard Horton introduces the sexual and reproductive health series published online on Nov 1. The main authors discuss key findings from the series.

This week's podcast includes an interview with Dr Julio Frenk, Mexico's Health Minister, discussing the recent health-system reforms in Mexico. The interview highlights the six papers published online this week about the Mexican health reforms.

This week's podcast includes an interview with the author of a study on the ear infection otitis media, and a discussion with Rhona McDonald of an Editorial on violence against women.

This week's podcast discusses the research article and comment documenting 650,000 excess deaths in Iraq since the 2003 conflict started.

Reports from Mexico about a new partnership between The Lancet and the Mexican Government, and a discussion of intimate partner violence experienced by women worldwide.

This week's Listen to The Lancet focuses on a series of articles on Maternal Health. It highlights how 500,000 women die in childbirth every year. Most of these deaths could be prevented by the implementation of professional health-care services.

Editor Richard Horton discusses the recent Lancet/UNICEF/Norwegian Government meeting concerning Millennium Development Goal 4: reducing under-5 child mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015. Linked to this are key MDG4 messages from a range of articles

This week's audio includes a discussion about the election of a new General-Director at WHO, and an interview with the author of a paper on the relationship between politics and health. It also covers an Editorial on US health care.

This week's Listen to The Lancet covers a Public Health article by Mexico's Minister of Health, research on the treatment of premature ejaculation, and the health implications of Nepal's ceasefire.

This week's podcast focuses on recent human-rights violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital city, following the 2004 military coup in that country.

Sabine Kleinert introduces this week's podcast which focuses on asthma and its related symptoms; John McConnell highlights key content from the September issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The latest podcast from The Lancet rounds up news from the XVI HIV/AIDS meeting in Toronto, and highlights the themed cardiology content of The latest issue.

As part of the AIDS 2006 meeting in Toronto, Canada, The Lancet hosted a debate discussing whether the scaling up of the response to HIV/AIDS has done more harm than good.

This week's audio summary highlights trachoma--the leading cause of preventable blindness globally--based on the two research articles and editorial in the Aug 12-19 issue.

Editor Richard Horton introduces the audio summary for this week's HIV/AIDS special issue. Also featured is the World Report about HIV/AIDS in Russia, and interviews with Richard Feachem from the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, and Peter Piot of UNAIDS.

Author Simon McRae discusses a research article suggesting that men could be 50% more likely to experience recurrent venous thromboembolism. There is also an interview around this week's lead Editorial about preterm births in the USA.

Author Lars Bo Andersen discusses how international guidelines need to be changed so that young children are encouraged to take 90 minutes exercise a day to prevent cardiovascular disease.