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Thalassaemia care is advancing fast, from gene therapies to AI diagnostics, but access and prevention still lag behind.

Hear from the authors of The Lancet Haematology's "Thalassaemia revisited: from health burden to breakthroughs" Series, produced with The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, on epidemiology across Asia, what's working in prevention, the real barriers to gene therapy access, and what's next for hydroxyurea, regional manufacturing, and AI in patient care.

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this episode, our senior editor Bhavani Nivetha speaks with Rakhi Dandona, representing the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Stillbirth Collaborators, about their new research on state and national estimates of stillbirth in India at 22 and 28 weeks of gestation. The discussion explores the challenges of measuring stillbirth burden and the methods used to generate estimates despite substantial data limitations. They also discuss the study's key findings, including important insights into stillbirths occurring between 22 and 27 weeks of gestation, an area where robust evidence has been limited. The conversation highlights the policy implications of these findings for India, with a focus on prevention, improved surveillance, and addressing stillbirth as a preventable and actionable public health issue. The conversation concludes with reflections on the need for strengthened health systems, greater awareness, and continued research to reduce the burden of stillbirth across the country.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(26)00104-6/fulltext

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this episode, our Senior Editor Apoorva Dharmendra speaks with Dr Vivek Kute and Dr Manish Balwani about their new research on the unmet need for solid organ transplantation in India. The discussion explores the motivation behind the study, the current landscape of organ donation and transplantation in India, and the methods used to estimate transplantation needs.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(26)00109-5/fulltext

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this episode our senior editor Bhavani nivetha talks to Dr Anuj Pandey, Assistant Professor from International Institute of Health Management Research, India and Dr Bhubate Samutachak, Associate Professor from Institute for Population and Social Research, Thailand about their new research on estimation of stillbirth in India at 20 weeks’ gestation or longer using national family health survey data.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(26)00042-9/fulltext

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this podcast Dr Gokul S speaks with Apoorva Dharmendra on findings from the National Cancer Registry Programme of India. The podcast covers findings with respect to metastatic breast cancer, a high burden condition for the Indian context-highlighting some surprising insights (such as the burden of metastasis at diagnosis) leading into a discussion on clinical and policy impact of the findings. The author also shares his vision on future research goals in this important area.

Read the full article here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(26)00051-X/fulltext

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this episode our senior editor Bhavani nivetha talks to Dr. Senjuti Saha, Deputy executive director at child health research foundation, Bangladesh about her new research on Incidence of respiratory syncytial virus infections among children in rural Bangladesh. The conversation covers what inspired the research, highlights key insights, discusses policy implications and future research directions for addressing respiratory syncytial virus infection in the country.

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this episode our senior editor Apoorva Dharmendra talks to Dr. Ashish Kumar, A Professor and Senior Consultant of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and of the Diabetes and Liver Interest Group (India) about his new research on the burden of liver fibrosis among people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in India .The conversation covers what inspired this research, the key insights from the study, and how the findings can shape policy and practice around this growing clinical concern (TB) elimination in the country. Join us for this episode as we explore the burden advanced liver disease in diabetes mellitus.

Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(26)00038-7/fulltext

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this episode our senior editor Bhavani nivetha talks to Dr. Kunchok Dorjee, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine about his new research on comprehensive tuberculosis screening and preventive treatment in congregate settings of India. The conversation covers what inspired this research, the key insights from the study, and how the findings can shape policy for Tuberculosis (TB) elimination in the country. Join us for this special World Tuberculosis Day episode as we explore how TB preventive treatment could play a transformative role in India’s TB elimination efforts.

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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In this episode, the editorial team of The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia, reflect on the research published in the journal in 2025. They discuss key scientific publications and population-specific evidence which had potential policy implications for the region. Looking ahead, the team shares their goals for the journal and offers perspectives on what they expect in the regional research landscape for 2026.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(25)00175-1/fulltext

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(25)00017-4/fulltext

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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March 24 serves as a reminder to evaluate our progress in eliminating the centuries-old scourge of tuberculosis. 

Dr Swarup Sarkar, Dr Anurag Bhargava, and Dr Mohammed Yassin speak with  Shalini Garg on the historical efforts to eliminate TB alongside the challenges in controlling the disease in the WHO south east Asia region, despite having achieved commendable success in controlling HIV. They also share their vision of how we could achieve the SDG goals and targets on TB.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/issue/vol31nonull/PIIS2772-3682(24)X0012-8?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_whod_lansea

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Shalini Garg and senior editors Apoorva Dharmendra and Bhavani Nivetha

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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