The link between antimicrobial use and increasing resistance is the main feature of this week's podcast.

The new technique of targeted muscle reinnervation that has enabled a young woman to have improved use of a prosthetic arm is highlighted in this week's podcast.

James Butcher outlines highlights from this week's themed stroke issue, which contains articles describing recent advances in the genetics, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of stroke.

This week's podcast includes an interview with Peter Strebel from WHO about new findings describing a 60% reduction in measles deaths worldwide between 1999 and 2005.

This week's podcast highlights the resurgence of syphilis in China, detailed in a research article.

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.