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