Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

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Which children in the USA have access to heroic salvage therapy?	266
Primaquine for children, once and for all	186
The case for action in paediatric neuromodulation – Author's reply	141
Gamblification: risks of digital gambling games to adolescents	131
The health and wellbeing case for children's suffrage	122
Child poverty in 2023: inequity in times of crises	113
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children needs its own identity: the case of psychotropic medicines	107
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective	107
Preventing reproductive coercion in adolescence	104
Tackling post-discharge mortality in children living in LMICs to reduce child deaths	92
Tackling childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	91
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 482–90	86
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2026; 10: 103–10	84
Early fetal intervention: balancing technological breakthroughs and long-term morbidity	82
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health statistical and peer reviewers in 2025	80
Current treatment outcomes of congenital heart disease and future perspectives	80
Eliminating hepatitis B: the ball is in our court	74
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health and substance use up to March, 2022, in Iceland: a repeated, cross-sectional, population-based study	74
Obesity-related asthma in children and adolescents	72
Global prevalence of hypertension among children and adolescents aged 19 years or younger: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	68
Single priming and booster dose of ten-valent and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation in children in South Africa: a single-centre, open-label, randomis	67
Medically cleared and waiting for healing to begin	66
Adolescents and the International Conference on Population and Development at 30	65
Social determinants, inequality, and autism	65
A spotlight on Streetlights Uganda	63

Just getting bi?	61
Self-asphyxial behaviour in adolescents	61
New fellows of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences	61
Trajectories of airflow limitation from childhood to early adulthood: an analysis of six population-based birth cohorts	58
Longitudinal association between dysmenorrhoea in adolescence and chronic pain in adulthood: a UK population-based study	58
Toward climate-smart, mental health-safe schools	57
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 684–85	57
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 837–47	56
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease: analysis of data from the PIBD-SETQuality Safety Registry	55
Continuation of gender-affirming hormones in transgender people starting puberty suppression in adolescence: a cohort study in the Netherlands	54
Pathological demand avoidance: further research is required – Authors' reply	51
Adolescent girls at the intersection of poverty, migration, and gender	51
“As we grieved, we grew”	49
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2023	49
The healing powers of music	49
Trust, but verify: a new potential association between food allergy and asthma in children	49
Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making	48
Neonatal research outcomes: the ethical imperative to change attitudes	47
Caring for children with cancer evacuated from Ukraine	47
Recognising context and power in youth mental health	47
Investing in childhood cancer registries to drive progress	46
Come and learn: an invitation from Zvandiri Youth Advocates	46
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 588–98	45
Intersectionality, gender norms, and young adolescents in context: a review of longitudinal multicountry research programmes to shape future action	45
Effectiveness of the quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine against influenza-related hospitalisations and morbidity among children aged 2 to 6 years in Denmark: a nationwide cohort study emul	45
Short-term and long-term risk of mortality and neurodevelopmental impairments after bacterial meningitis during infancy in children in Denmark and the Netherlands: a nationwide matched cohort study	44
Landmark verdicts against social media companies in the USA	44
Efficacy and safety of methylphenidate and behavioural parent training for children aged 3–5 years with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, and sh	44
The importance of sleep for adolescents' long-term development	44
Growth of children who are HIV-exposed but uninfected: a systematic review and meta-analysis	42
Achievement goals and adolescent depression: implications for school-based interventions	42
Recovery from mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis	41
The gift of a good beginning	40
Asking the big questions about health inequalities	40
Children are not future producers and customers: a plea for the moral imperative of acting now	40
Growing up modulated: paediatric neuromodulation needs a new ethical framework	39
Delay in death registration among adolescents and young adults in England and Wales	37
Clinical and statistical insights from the FEED1 trial	37
Substandard and falsified medicines for children: UHC has a preventive role	37
Out of Zimbabwe: fragmented families and mental health	37
Mental health consequences of child marriage	36
The neglect of kwashiorkor	36
Refreshing our International Advisory Board and Youth Advisory Panel	36
Harnessing n-of-1 trials for personalised paediatric care in the era of information overload	36
Off-label is not always off-evidence: authorising paediatric indications for old medicines	34
Safety of in vivo gene therapy in children: mechanisms and management of liver injury	32
School bullying in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	32
1-year follow-up of oral versus intravenous antibiotics in children and adolescents with uncomplicated bone and joint infections: a nationwide, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial in Denmark	32
Comparison of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika among children in Nicaragua across 18 years: a single-centre, prospective cohort study	32
Adjunctive dexamethasone and 30-day all-cause death after hospital admission in paediatric pneumococcal meningitis: a propensity score analysis	32

Effect of a youth-led early childhood care and education programme on children's development and learning in rural Sindh, Pakistan (LEAPS): a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised implementation trial	32
Muscle dysmorphia in adolescents and young adults	32
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy in Australia: a non-randomised cohort study	32
Neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance in Africa	32
Autism incidence and spatial analysis in more than 7 million pupils in English schools: a retrospective, longitudinal, school registry study	31
Late effects after high-risk neuroblastoma (LEAHRN): a multicentre, cross-sectional cohort study from the Children's Oncology Group	31
Prevalence of hypertension and high-normal blood pressure among young adults in Zimbabwe: findings from a large, cross-sectional population-based survey	31
Diagnostic test accuracy of procalcitonin and C-reactive protein for predicting invasive and serious bacterial infections in young febrile infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Re-integrating Africa's street children	30
Integrated biomarker and treatment correlates of prognosis in infant non-WNT/non-SHH medulloblastoma: a multinational retrospective cohort study	30
The expanding field of genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: current understanding and future perspectives	30
Childhood cancer: exercise is medicine	30
Paediatric endovascular thrombectomy: balancing strength of numbers and accuracy of precision medicine	29
Antara Ganguli: rethinking gender equality in and through education	29
Treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Latin America: recommendations from the Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology	28
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 89–99	28
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 766–75	28
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 383–92	28
US medical groups sue to reverse overhaul of vaccine recommendations	27
Advancing severity grading for risk-differentiated paediatric pneumonia care	27
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 86–95	27
The future of rhabdomyosarcoma trials	26
Shared grief is half the sorrow	26
New insights into the link between childhood adversity and epigenetic changes	26
Different is not deficient: respecting diversity in early childhood development – Authors' reply	26
Capturing adolescent realities in the global data revolution	26
Growing up in the shadow of terrorism	26
Cybervictimisation and mental health conditions in young people: findings from a nationally representative longitudinal cohort	26
Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa	26
Feeling at home in the motherland	26
Efficacy and safety of switching from intravenous to oral antibiotics (amoxicillin–clavulanic acid) versus a full course of intravenous antibiotics in neonates with probable bacterial infection (RAIN)	25
Global, regional, and national burdens of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and young adults aged 10–24 years from 1990 to 2019: a trend analysis based on the Global Burden	25
Who protects the children and women of Sudan?	25
Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries	24
Comparative physiological effects of antipsychotic drugs in children and young people: a network meta-analysis	24
Intersex is not a secret	23
Medicate or operate: epilepsy surgery could save lives	23
Adolescent e-cigarette use screening: enabling health-care providers	23
The critical state of children's health during the Sudan crisis	23
The UK Illegal Migration Bill: a child rights violation and safeguarding catastrophe	23
Urgently expanding access to improved treatment for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis	23
Fact versus fiction: the extraordinary lives of care-experienced, fostered, and adopted children	22
No safe place: ending adolescent digital intimate partner violence	22
The Step Safely guidelines: a catalyst to address the burden of falls in children and adolescents	22
Paediatric acute liver failure: a multidisciplinary perspective on when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation	22
Child and adolescent health through storytelling	22
“His mind, however, was now…released.”	22
Building momentum to improve childhood cancer outcomes in Asia	22
Immunological effects and safety of live rotavirus vaccination after antenatal exposure to immunomodulatory biologic agents: a prospective cohort study from the Canadian Immunization Research Network	21
Paediatric trial guidelines co-designed by those who take part	21
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab immunisation against bronchiolitis in infants: a case–control study in Paris, France	20
Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people: a paediatric health crisis	20
Clinical encounters with yourself: share, disclose, or overexpose?	20
Mycophenolate mofetil versus prednisone for the initial treatment of idiopathic steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in children in Germany (INTENT): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled,	20
Association between caregiver concern for clinical deterioration and critical illness in children presenting to hospital: a prospective cohort study	20
Prospective associations between ADHD symptoms and physical conditions from early childhood to adolescence: a population-based longitudinal study	20
Dismantling barriers and biases against adolescent mothers	20
Current status and challenges in prenatal and neonatal screening, diagnosis, and management of congenital heart disease in China	20
Achievement goals and adolescent mental health in individualist versus collectivist cultures	19
“Complicated feelings of home”: stories of child migration to the UK	19
Lung function trajectories and determinants in early life	18
Attention to menarche, puberty education, and menstrual health monitoring are essential	18
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 837–47	18
For youth, for Justice	18
Paracetamol, pyrexia, and the prevention of atopy: lessons from PIPPA Tamariki	17
Missed opportunities to develop childhood cancer programmes in Africa	17
Tuberculosis research principles and priorities in children and adolescents: an international consensus statement	17
Prioritising snakebite in the child and adolescent health agenda	17
The example we set: Gen AI, honesty, and authenticity	17
Gender service for children: a battle for health in a culture war	17
Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individ	16
SPIRIT-Children and Adolescents (SPIRIT-C) 2026 extension statement: enhancing the reporting and usefulness of paediatric randomised trial protocols	16
Hospital admissions and need for mechanical ventilation in children with respiratory syncytial virus before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Danish nationwide cohort study	16
Weight-loss medications: promoting health and not harm	16
Incorporating parental values in complex paediatric and perinatal decisions	16
Reversing the neglect of children and adolescents affected by tuberculosis	16
The pain of being a young person experiencing chronic pain	16
PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study	16
Association between the timing of childhood adversity and epigenetic patterns across childhood and adolescence: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) prospective c	15
Death by accident: the curse of mobility	15

Serum GFAP and UCH-L1 for the identification of clinically important traumatic brain injury in children in France: a diagnostic accuracy substudy	15
Early neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed uninfected children in the era of antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Estimated incidence, prevalence, mortality, and registration of childhood cancer (ages 0–14 years) in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: an analysis of GLOBOCAN 2020 data	15
Biomarkers for early identification of severe febrile illness among children in community settings: spot on?	15
Bedside model-informed precision dosing of vancomycin in severely ill neonates and children in Belgium (the BENEFICIAL trial): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial	15
Self-advocacy and barriers for young people accessing health care in the Scottish Highlands	14
Vaccination against all odds in Brazil	14
Challenges and opportunities of female leadership in education	14
Adolescents in phase 3 HIV clinical trials	14
Progress and challenges of HIV and other STIs in adolescents and young adults	14
Correction Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2024; 8: 51–62	14
Beyond birthweight: longitudinal insights into twin growth and obesity risk	14
Long-term kidney outcomes in children and adolescents with hypertension: a propensity-matched cohort study	14
Course-correcting youth mental health care	13
Blood transfusion for children in sub-Saharan Africa: 200 years on	13
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2026; 10: 255–64	13
Rare and severe adverse events in children with inflammatory bowel disease	13
Lessons from UK historical cohort studies of lower respiratory tract infections – Authors' reply	13
The Health Hive: Creating pathways for young people to take an active role in public health research and advocacy	13
Bridging the worlds of art and health care	13
Helping adolescents cope with the burden of scoliosis	13
Regenerative medicine: prenatal approaches	12
Advances in medical management of acute liver failure in children: promoting native liver survival	12
Bullying and health inequalities for children and adolescents with disability	12
Kawasaki disease: contemporary perspectives	12
Cancer risk with topical calcineurin inhibitors, pimecrolimus and tacrolimus, for atopic dermatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Importance of understanding the reinfection risk of COVID-19 in children	12
Determinants of lung function development from birth to age 5 years: an interrupted time series analysis of a South African birth cohort	12
Finding diamonds in a coal mine	11
Authentic First Nations health research	11
Lipoprotein apheresis and long-term cardiovascular health: a real answer for children with HoFH?	11
Difficult questions about long COVID in children	11
This void needs to be filled with colour	11
Semaglutide and social media: implications for young women with polycystic ovarian syndrome	11
Kid Governors and youth civic engagement in the USA	11
Bonface Massah: changemaker and defender for children with albinism	11
Children and armed conflict	10
Severe acute hepatitis in children	10
What does the future hold for youth in Africa with high blood pressure?	10
Supporting the sovereignty of families and cultures	10
Physical activity and exercise for cancer-related cognitive impairment among individuals affected by childhood cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Automatic versus manual control of oxygen and neonatal clinical outcomes in extremely preterm infants: a multicentre, parallel-group, randomised, controlled, superiority trial	9
WHO's global roadmap to tackle adolescent hypertension	9
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2023; 7: 373–74	9
What is the specific role of schools and daycares in COVID-19 transmission? A final report from a living rapid review	9
Simplifying medicine dosing for children by harmonising weight bands across therapeutic areas	9
Cybervictimisation as a marker of broader youth harm	9
Youth engagement at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health	9
Mpox among children in Africa	9
Childhood growth hormone treatment and metabolic and cardiovascular risk in adults born small for gestational age after growth hormone cessation in the Netherlands: a 12-year follow-up study	9
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025; 9: 9	9
Real-world effectiveness of nirsevimab against respiratory syncytial virus disease in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Long-term sequelae in survivors of high-risk neuroblastoma: the price of success	8
Familial confounding and causal inference in child and adolescent neurodevelopment and mental health	8
Subgroups of children with Kawasaki disease: a data-driven cluster analysis	8
Priorities in tackling non-communicable diseases in children and adolescents in China	8
Real-life benefits of high-efficacy therapies for children with multiple sclerosis	8
Can the 2024 UK election change the child health trajectory?	8
Infant food allergy phenotypes and association with lung function deficits and asthma at age 6 years: a population-based, prospective cohort study in Australia	8
Characterising sources of PM2·5 exposure for school children with asthma: a personal exposure study across six cities in sub-Saharan Africa	8
Vosoritide therapy in children with achondroplasia aged 3−59 months: a multinational, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial	8
Standardising training for young people's research advisory groups	8
Raising the bar for measuring childhood adversity	8
Delayed puberty and early-onset type 2 diabetes risk: a nationwide cohort study of male adolescents in Israel	8
Efficacy and safety of ziresovir in hospitalised infants aged 6 months or younger with respiratory syncytial virus infection in China: findings from a phase 3 randomised trial with 24-month follow-up	8
Honouring and learning from youth voices	7
Unintentional injuries in adolescents: a neglected issue in global health	7
Keeping schools open in times of health crises: seeing the global picture	7
Tracey Smythe: advancing disability-inclusive health care	7
Thank you to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2022	7
Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children – Authors' reply	7
Quality improvement programmes in paediatric sepsis from a global perspective	7
Primaquine for uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in children younger than 15 years: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis	7
Paediatric group A streptococcal disease in England: a primary care perspective – Authors' reply	7
Ultra-processed food: from first tastes to lifelong habits	7
CONSORT-Children and Adolescents (CONSORT-C) 2026 extension statement: enhancing the reporting and impact of paediatric randomised trials	7
Early childhood height, weight, and BMI development in children with monogenic obesity: a European multicentre, retrospective, observational study	7
Adolescent acne vulgaris: current and emerging treatments	6
Mortality after hospital discharge among children younger than 5 years admitted with suspected sepsis in Uganda: a prospective, multisite, observational cohort study	6
Listen to the parents: caregiver concern and development of critical illness	6
Next steps in treatment of prematurity-associated respiratory disease	6
Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children	6
EDCs: a threat to child health	6
Asthma symptoms, severity, and control with and without a clinical diagnosis of asthma in early adolescence in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country, school-based, cross-sectional study	6
Prevention of food allergy in infancy: the role of maternal interventions and exposures during pregnancy and lactation	6
Strengthening sexual and reproductive health education for children and adolescents in China	6
The case for point-of-care HIV viral load testing in Africa	6
The cost-of-living crisis, poverty, and child maltreatment	6
Luciana Rodrigues Silva: paediatric gastroenterologist and trailblazer in Brazil	6
Asthma care for all: mind the missing middle years	6
Need for a consensus definition of remission in paediatric asthma	6
Sinéad Rhodes: setting the record straight on neurodivergence	6
Advancing the rights of street and working children	6
Longer-term survival, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness of conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children: a pre-specified analysis from Oxy-PICU, a multicentre, open	6
Correction to Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2022; 6: 533–44	6