Strength in numbers: Together, rare diseases affect about 3 million people in the UK. We discuss a new UK-wide strategy to improve care for these patients...

Poisoned waters: why are funds to reduce arsenic poisoning drying up in Bangladesh? Find out in this week's podcast. Also, relaxing China's one-child-policy, shockingly low rates of organ donation in Germany...

Typhoon Haiyan: we talk to the International Medical Corps' Jacob Schafer in Cebu, Philippines, about what the international aid response has been like so far.

It's a knockout: Concussion in sport has received much attention of late, so we're joined by the Editor of The Lancet Psychiatry to discuss how sporting bodies can help protect people who play sport.

A bad plan: The Harper administration in Canada wants to make it more difficult for safe drug-injection rooms to exist. We interview the author of a World Report for the reaction from the medical community...

Modern slavery: Almost 30 million people are controlled by other people for economic or sexual gain. Kevin Bales joins us to explore the problems and the health implications for these disenfranchised people...

MIM's the word: We get the lowdown on what happened at the 6th International Malaria Conference (MIM). Also, the US government re-opens (but at what lasting cost to health?)...

Atlas of MS: The MS International Federation have pulled together the largest and most up-to-date interactive collection of MS data worldwide. We speak with one of its creators, who encourages everyone to have a go...

Shutdown and out: We're joined by our North American Editor to discuss Congress's failure to extend the debt ceiling and what the US government shutdown means for the future of Obamacare...

Health in crises: We take a look at how armed insurrections in the south Philippines and in Somalia make delivering aid all but impossible for those populations who need it most...