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

Rebecca Cooney and Susan Jaffe with an update on US health policies and the progress of the Affordable Care Act.

Fighting fires and elephants: we look at the slow international response to the Ebola epidemic in west Africa and discuss the elephant in the room that is climate change and health, ahead of the UN Summit. Also in this week's podcast, kick-starting medicine with crowd funding.

Daily bread: How an antiquated, cold-war food aid system is stunting efforts to provide food to refugees amid multiple humanitarian crises. Also, geneticists celebrate the Wellcome Trust’s cork-popping £27 million boost to research in the UK, and college-level American Football players inch ever closer to ensuring adequate protection against sports-related brain injury.

Cease fire: Gaza correspondent Kristin Solberg joins The Lancet News to talk health and humanitarian issues. Also in this episode: a guide to chikungunya, the perils of sex-selective abortion, and mitochondrial replacement therapy in the UK.

Smallpox in a cardboard box: Discussion and debate surround the vials found on the National Institute of Health campus in the USA, and we talk about the HIV epidemic as the International AIDS Conference approaches. Correspondent Sophie Cousins speaks to us about her time in Aleppo's hospitals, and Andrew Green tells us the latest news about Ebola in west Africa.

Iraq's growing health crisis: Thousands of Iraqis have fled their homes following attacks by Sunni rebels who have taken over areas of the north and west of the country...

3D printing: in a special bumper podcast, we discuss the new 3D Print Exchange launched by the US National Institutes of Health, as well as the arrest of a former Novartis employee in Japan who stands accused of falsifying clinical data related to the hypertension drug valsartan...

Acts of War: this week saw the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict—we look at issues around obtaining reliable data and the need for local strategies to tackle rape and sexual violence in war...

Breaking Bad (habits): an opioid-rescue strategy pioneered in the badlands of New Mexico is now saving lives of prescription drug users...