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Jessamy Bagenal, Chloe Wilson, and Callum Davidson—editors at The Lancet—and Gavin Cleaver, The Lancet Group’s Audio Producer, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. 

A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers topics that advance the field of medical research, from exploring treatments to examining drug trials, public health outbreaks to surgical techniques, and more.

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651 episodes

Patricia Campbell and Frans Rutten on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Patricia Campbell and Frans Rutten join Chloe Wilson for an educationally-focused podcast, discussing the key messages for clinical practice on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Read the full Seminar: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02756-3/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lancet Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://twitter.com/thelancet https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://linkedin.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv https://www.youtube.com/thelancettv

40m
Mar 28, 2024
Lene Seidler on umbilical cord management at preterm birth

Lene Seidler joins Callam Davidson of to discuss umbilical cord clamping strategies at preterm birth following the publication of two systemic review and meta-analyses with individual participant data. Read the full articles: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02468-6/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02469-8/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lancet Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://twitter.com/thelancet https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://linkedin.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv https://www.youtube.com/thelancettv

14m
Dec 21, 2023
Emily Chew on the future of treatments for geographic atrophy

Emily Chew joins Chloe Wilson of to discuss the future of treatments for geographic atrophy following the publication of two randomised controlled trials of new drug treatments. Read the full article here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01583-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lancet Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://twitter.com/thelancet https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://linkedin.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv https://www.youtube.com/thelancettv

18m
Oct 26, 2023
Simon Kyle on a new effective treatment for insomnia

Simon Kyle joins Gavin Cleaver of  to discuss his paper on sleep restriction therapy as a new effective treatment for insomnia. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00683-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lancet Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://twitter.com/thelancet https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://linkedin.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv https://www.youtube.com/thelancettv

11m
Aug 31, 2023
Verna Vanderpuye and Isabelle Soerjomataram on International Women's Day and cancer

On this International Womens Day,  editors and the co-chairs of the Women and Cancer Commission discuss the burden of women’s cancer on society and reflect on the questions the Commission is trying to answer. 

12m
Mar 08, 2022
Nick James on the STAMPEDE trial

Nick James discusses the key messages of the recent report from the STAMPEDE trial platform and the success of this platform in advancing the treatment of prostate cancer 

14m
Dec 23, 2021
In conversation with... Jie Qiao (in Chinese)

《柳叶刀》亚洲执行主编王辉对话《柳叶刀中国女性生殖、孕产妇、新生儿、儿童和青少年健康重大报告》共同主席乔杰院士。

16m
Jun 02, 2021
In conversation with... Jie Qiao (in English)

Helena Wang discusses The Commission on womens reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) in China with author Professor Jie Qiao.

16m
Jun 02, 2021
In Conversation With... Siobhan Quenby & Arri Coomarasamy on miscarriage

Siobhan Quenby & Arri Coomarasamy discuss the key findings from s new Series on miscarriage.

18m
Apr 26, 2021
Muir Gray

On the 50th anniversary of the Inverse Care Law, Professor Sir Muir Gray joins Gavin Cleaver to discuss the continuing importance of the ICL, and notions of value and quality in health care.

16m
Feb 25, 2021
Mary Bassett

s new Commission, Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era, looks back at the effects of the last four years on the health of the USA. One of the authors of the Commission, Mary Bassett (Harvard University) joins us to talk about the Commission findings and wider issues facing the USA.

25m
Feb 11, 2021
Richard Horton on the Oxford vaccine phase 3 trial

Editor-in-chief of , Richard Horton, discusses the results of the Oxford vaccines phase 3 trial.

11m
Dec 08, 2020
Renee Salas

Renee Salas, leader of the Countdown policy brief in the US, discusses the climate problems facing the US, the issues of the last four years, and the reasons to be optimistic about the future.

17m
Dec 02, 2020
Rafael Lozano and Margaret Kruk

Universal health coverage (UHC) is a vital facet of healthcare across the world, and a new Global Burden of Disease paper seeks to measure its spread.  spoke with  author Rafael Lozano and linked Comment author Margaret Kruk about efforts to analyse and measure UHC.

22m
Sep 02, 2020
Richard Horton

 Editor-in-Chief Richard Horton explains the current status of the Oxford and China COVID-19 vaccines, including an overview of current progress and the next steps for both.

11m
Jul 20, 2020
Kathleen O’Reilly and Stein Emil Vollset

The new Global Burden of Disease paper forecasts major alterations in worldwide population over the next few decades. We ask Kathleen O’Reilly, of LSHTM, how models are made and how you account for a changing world, and we speak with paper author Stein Emil Vollset of IHME about the implications of his predictions.

23m
Jul 14, 2020
Rosanna Peeling

Professor Rosanna Peeling discusses the implications of seroprevalence results from recent COVID-19 antibody studies.

21m
Jul 07, 2020
Bin Cao (in Chinese)

柳叶刀亚洲执行主编王辉跟曹彬教授关于2019冠状病毒感染住院患者临床发病过程和死亡危险因素的讨论

18m
Mar 09, 2020
Bin Cao

The Asia Executive Editor of , Helena Hui Wang, chats with Bin Cao about clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China.

11m
Mar 09, 2020
Richard Horton, Sarah Dalglish, and Grace Gatera

Richard Horton, Sarah Dalglish, and Grace Gatera talk about the future for children alive today, alongside findings from the new Commission.

16m
Feb 19, 2020
The Gift

Preethi Ramchand reads her Wakley Prize-winning essay, The Gift.

9m
Dec 20, 2019
The double burden of malnutrition

Camila Corvalan and Sandro Demaio talk about malnutrition around the world, and discuss how obesity and undernutrition are part of the same problem.

10m
Dec 16, 2019
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

’s Tamara Lucas talks to Professor Hugh Montgomery and Professor Hilary Graham about this year’s annual Countdown, and past twelve months of activity in climate change.

36m
Nov 14, 2019
Opioid use, treatment, and policy

Louisa Degenhardt analyses recent changes in opioid usage and talks about clinical and policy solutions, in a podcast to accompany s Drug Use Series.

8m
Oct 23, 2019
Malaria eradication within a generation

Sir Richard Feacham discusses the prospects and benefits of eradicating malaria.

18m
Sep 09, 2019
The upstream determinants of health

Michael Marmot, author of the 2010 Marmot Review, and Elias Nosrati discuss the effects of punitive social policy and austerity on health equity in the USA and Europe.

18m
Aug 02, 2019
25 Years Since Cairo

To mark World Population Day, UNFPA executive director Dr. Natalia Kanem discusses progress made since the landmark 1994 Cairo conference on population and development, and her hopes for the future.

10m
Jul 13, 2019
Nerve transfer surgery for restoring upper limb movement

The Lancets Senior Editor Jonathan Pimm talks with author Natasha van Zyl about the pioneering surgical procedure of transplanting nerves to restore function in the upper limbs.

15m
Jul 07, 2019
Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China

Helena Wang from talks with Xiaofeng Liang from China CDC about China’s major burden of diseases. This podcast is in Chinese.

20m
Jun 24, 2019
Mental health in conflict zones

Fiona Charlson and Mark van Ommeren talk about the hidden epidemic of severe mental health disorders in conflict zones.

11m
Jun 12, 2019