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Jocalyn Clark and guests Marleen Temmerman and Ana-Pilar Betran discuss the challenge of overuse and underuse of caesarean section procedures worldwide.

With a high-level ministerial summit taking place on Oct 9-10 in London, Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena outline the priorities ahead for improving mental health worldwide.

Helen Frankish and Craig Anderson discuss a new three-part stroke Series, covering ischaemic stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage, and implications for global stroke prevention and management.

Lucy Smith discusses the underestimation  of stillbirth in Europe, and the global priorities for recognising stillbirth within the sustainable development agenda.

Ahead of the third UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs on Sept 27, Jennifer Sargent and guests discuss The Lancet’ s first NCD Countdown 2030 paper and implications for country-level health policies and progress towards the achievement of SDG target 3.4: a third reduction in premature deaths from non-communicable diseases by 2030.

With 2018 being declared a year for action against TB, Pam Das and Dick Menzies discuss a study that informs the recent change in WHO treatment guidelines for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis worldwide.

Margaret Kruk talks about her latest work on health system quality and related mortality, appearing in  The Lancet and in a Commission in  The Lancet Global Health .

Naomi Lee talks to Matthew Wilson about current options for pain relief in labour, and what the future of research holds.

Do more expensive securement dressings for peripheral intravenous cannulae improve failure rates and outcomes for patients?  Lancet  editor Jessamy Bagenal talks with paper author Claire Rickard.

On the day the WHO announced the end of the Ebola outbreak in the DRC, Lancet editor Pam Das speaks with Mike Ryan, Assistant DG for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the WHO, and David Heymann, head of Chatham House Global Health, about how the outbreak was contained and what lessons were learned.

This podcast hosted by Rebecca Cooney features editors Catarina Sacristan and Helen Brooks discussing their experiences in the editorial secondment program, a special collaboration between Cell Press and T he Lancet .

Stephanie Snow joins  The Lancet to discuss her project, NHS at 70: The Story Of Our Lives, as well as the importance of the NHS to the fabric of the UK.

Lancet editors Jocalyn Clark and Liz Zuccala discuss what spurred the Lancet Women initiative, what the response has been like, and what the future holds.

Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population. A new study highlights the population mental health impact of events widely perceived to be a symptom of structural racism, and supports recent calls to treat police killings as a public health issue. The Lancet ’s Rebecca Cooney speaks to Jacob Bor and Rhea Boyd...

Can patients with rectal cancer safely avoid surgery? Jessamy Bagenal of  The Lancet interviews Geerard Beets about findings from the International Watch & Wait Database.

Rebecca Cooney discusses right-to-try legislation with Dr. Vinay Prasad. Who actually benefits from the new law?

Angel Li joins  The Lancet 's Marianne Guenot to discuss abortion law changes in Ireland and their potential effect on Northern Ireland.

Janna Juvonen and Jen Silvers speak with Lancet Executive Editor Rebecca Cooney about the Trump administration’s migrant child separation policy.  Does it amount to torture?

Ed Gregg from the CDC joins  The Lancet to discuss new research into changing trends of diabetes-related mortality in the United States.

Helena Wang talks to Peng Gong about The Lancet -Tsinghua Healthy Cities Commission, what needs to be done to evaluate the progress and promote healthy cities in China. This podcast is in Chinese.

Natacha Protopopoff joins  The Lancet to talk about her new study on bed nets, malaria, and insecticide resistance.

Why are poverty and NCDs linked so closely? And what can be done to fix both? Authors and editors from  The Lancet 's Taskforce on NCDs and economics discuss taxation, healthcare, and more.

Three series authors join  The Lancet to talk about trends in diagnosis and treatment of low back pain around the world.

Kenneth Fleming and John Nkengasong discuss the importance of pathology services, as part of The Lancet ’s Series on pathology and laboratory medicine in low-income and middle-income countries.

Marianne Guenot, editor of  The Lancet 's World Report section, joins us to talk about the current crisis in global health journalism.