The Lancet Pulse
The Lancet Pulse is a monthly podcast from The Lancet that explores the latest advances and toughest challenges in clinical medicine. Each episode covers topics like xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, immunotherapies, and psychedelic drug research. Editors at The Lancet meet with global experts to discuss how new research and technologies are improving patient care.
Episodes
From Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2026. With Lucia Crivelli, Paulo Caramelli, Heather Snyder, Maria Carrillo, Juan Fortea, Kristine Yaffe and Lon Schneider
In this episode, The Lancet reports from the 2026 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference at ExCeL London, which brought together more than 10,000 attendees from 111 countries.
Neurology Editor, Beatriz Gómez Pérez-Nievas speaks with LatAm FINGERS authors right after the study’s launch, as well as with other Lancet authors, to discuss the conference highlights and what excites them most a
Chemicals of concern: Kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)
What happens when a drug people can buy in everyday stores behaves like an opioid—yet regulators still treat it as a “gray zone”?
In The Lancet Pulse episode, host Matthew Gilbert and co-host Niall Boyce are joined by Dr. Liza Hutchison, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan, an addiction medicine physician overseeing services at a federally qualified health center i
What is in a name change? Moving from the term PCOS to PMOS
In this episode of The Lancet Pulse, Chloe Wilson joins Helena Teede and Terhi Piltonen to discuss a recent health policy published in The Lancet that details a global consensus process that puts forward a new name for PCOS - termed PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome) to more accurately reflect the disease process.
Listen now to hear more about the process and how it is hoped the name
Is there a link between diet and mental health?
In this episode of The Lancet Pulse, Niall Boyce and Matt Gilbert speak with Professor Daniel Smith about the emerging connection between diet and mental health, with a focus on the ketogenic diet and bipolar disorder. Together, they explore what bipolar disorder is, why its depressive phases can be so difficult to treat, and why researchers are beginning to investigate whether changes in metaboli
Is the opening of an AI hospital closer to reality than we think?
Professor Tien Yin Wong, from Tsinghua University, talks to Lancet editors Helena Wang and Ben Abbott about Tsinghua’s world-first AI hospital project, providing insights into both its enormous potential and some of the reality checks that have occurred along the way.
Professor Wong also paints a picture of China’s overall health challenges and its readiness and enthusiasm for AI as a potential so
Are we ready for AI to transform pathology?
The field of pathology is starting to look very different, as we increasingly understand the potential for AI to support clinical diagnosis and decision-making, alleviate high clinician workloads, and perform complex tasks that humans can't.
But the adoption of AI isn't without challenges. Sebastian Försch and Inti Zlobec join Ben Abbott and Chloe Wilson, from The Lancet, to discuss.
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Are we on the cusp of a psychedelic renaissance in psychiatry?
Professor Rachel Yehuda from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai describes psychedelics as “heart openers” and Dr. Liliana Galindo from the University of Cambridge likens their action to a surgeon’s scalpel, but each agree that psychedelic-assisted therapy may offer lasting relief to people struggling with a wide range of mental health problems.
Both join Lancet editors Jonathan and Matt
Could engineered xenotransplantation end the organ shortage and save lives?
Professor Alexandre Loupy, joins editor Chloe Wilson to discuss innovation in xenotransplantation as well as the challenges from gene editing, immunological barriers, and the complex ethical and regulatory frameworks guiding progress in xenotransplantation.
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The Lancet Pulse is part of the Lancet Group podcast offering.
Editorial team: Chloe Wilson, Ben Abbott, Ma
Introducing The Lancet Pulse
In this short introductory episode, meet Lancet editors Chloe, Ben, Jonathan, and Matt as we talk about what’s coming up in the podcast and the topics we’re excited to explore further.
"we hope that these podcasts will be an informative, more digestible, and accessible way to learn and to get some of the latest updates from trusted experts."
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