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Manuel Rueda discusses the humanitarian work of medical students and doctors in Venezuela’s violent street protests.

Peter Green from Columbia University, New York City, discusses a Seminar which gives an up-to-date analysis of an increasingly prevalent disease that affects around 1% of the global population.

Rebecca Cooney discusses the new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on opioids with members of the committee.

From the launch of The Lancet 's Commission Dementia prevention, intervention, and care, listen to Alistair Burns, Charles Alessi, and Helen Kales provide their views on the importance and future use of the Commission.

Lead author Gill Livingston discusses the new Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care.

Helen Petousis-Harris discusses a proof of principle study which suggests that a type of meningococcal B vaccine could protect against gonorrhoea.

Author and leading health policy expert Reinhard Busse discusses the success and current challenges of Germany’s health system.

Adam Gaffney discusses what is in the US Senate's Affordable Care Act-repeal bill with Rebecca Cooney ahead of this week’s expected Senate vote.

Nadine Rouphael and Mark Prausnitz discuss the findings from their phase 1 trial that uses a dissolvable microneedle patch to deliver an influenza vaccine to patients.

A special podcast from the European League Against Rheumatology meeting in Madrid, highlighting a two-part Series on rheumatoid arthritis.

Julie Cantor discusses the freedom to access abortion in the USA.

Elizabeth Pisani discusses how global health can be represented through music, in an upcoming production in London called Song of Contagion.

Rebecca Cooney and Aaron van Dorn speak with Adam Gaffney about the state of the American Health Care Act and what it means for the politics of health care in the USA.

Danilo Fliser discusses a clinical Series that examines acute kidney injury, and priorities for graft preservation after renal transplantation.

Sharmila Devi reports after a recent visit to South Sudan, where a combination of drought and civil conflict is perpetuating an appalling health and humanitarian catastrophe.

Professor Mark Clarfield from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, with an overview of a new Lancet country Series about health in Israel.

Aaron van Dorn speaks with series author Jacob Bor about the interaction of rising inequality and health outcomes.

Amy Ahern discusses the results from the UK trial assessing the effects of patient access to an extended vs standard weight-loss programme.

Aaron van Dorn discusses mass incarceration and its effect on public health in the USA with Series author Christopher Wildeman.

Haleema Shakur-Still and Ian Roberts discuss the results from the WOMAN trial on early use of tranexamic acid to reduce deaths due to post-partum haemorrhage.

Rebecca Cooney speaks with Mary Bassett and Zinzi Bailey about health outcomes and structural racism in the USA.

Rebecca Cooney discusses the Affordable Care Act with US Series author Adam Gaffney.

Rebecca Cooney discusses inequality and healthcare outcomes in the USA with Series author Sam Dickman.

Series leaders David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler discuss the Series, and how it could help shape the future direction of US health policy.

Emmanuela Gakidou discusses the Article on daily smoking prevalence and attributable global disease burden.