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New research published in The Lancet show that for the first time in history, the complications of preterm birth outrank all other causes as the world's number one killer of young children.Ìý We look at what can be done to prevent theÌý 1400 deaths that occur in the UK and help more women carry their babies to full term.

A leading businesswoman, Karen Blackett CEO of the advertising giant MediaCom UK, has been named as the most influential black person in Britain.Ìý She beat off competition from household names like Lenny Henry and Idris Elba as well as other black business and political leaders to head the Powerlist 2015.

The gender pay gap is bigger for part time workers than full time workers. ÌýBut how difficult is it to remain in a professional, well paid post whilst working part time? Since the Flexible Working Regulations changed in June 2014, giving all employees the right to request flexible working patterns, more and more people are requesting to work in ways that allow them to have a better work life balance, everything from part-time, to job shares, term time work, to working some or all of the time from home. We look at the realities of flexible work: can you still get promoted when you’re part time? ÌýHow do you have the conversation with your boss, and how can you make it work for you, so that you remain productive without ending up working more than your contracted hours for the same pay? ÌýJane Garvey is joined by Michaela Bergman, who looks after gender equality at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development who argues the business case for flexi working; Chris Ward who works part time to achieve his lifetime ambitions and is the author of 'Out of Office, work where you like & achieve more'; and by Karen Blackett, a leading business woman who was on the panel of judges for the ÌýPower Part Time list of 50 senior people who work part time.

Ann Cotton has just been awarded the equivalent of ‘the Nobel Prize for education’. At the beginning of November she was named and received half a million dollars for her campaign to promote education for girls in Africa.Ìý Ann is the founder of which believes that investing in girls' education has substantial benefits for the rest of their community. Research shows that better-educated girls tend to marry later and have healthier children. Higher earnings are more likely to be invested by women in their families.Ìý Since 1993,Camfed has helped to educate more than three million girls in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe and with the WISE prize money Camfed has pledged to support one million girls in sub-Saharan Africa through secondary school over the next five years.

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A worrying number of older women are entering formal treatment forÌý alcoholism, according to new figures. Nearly one in 10 of those starting treatment is now a woman aged 60 or more, which compares to 6% five years ago.Ìý There are still more men than women getting treatment, but the gap between the sexes has halved in five years. ÌýJane Garvey talks to Dr Paul McLaren a consultant psychiatrist at The Priory Group about what is triggering the problem, what can be done to help health professionals recognise it and what’s available to help them recover.Ìý