On the 30th anniversary of the UN convention on the rights of the child, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health and Professor Jeffrey Goldhagen discuss how to put children’s rights, justice and equity into practice.
Jane Bell and Simon Paget discuss trends in prescription opioid dispensing in Australian children and adolescents, and Scott Hadland comments on lessons learnt from the US experience.
The CDC’s Mark Thompson explains how the incidence of flu-associated infant hospital admissions might be double previous estimates.
Chris Bonell discusses a new theory on how school environment might influence risk-taking behaviours and health in adolescents in a Viewpoint published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
A new study analyses how gender expression in adolescence can be associated with health behaviour and associate risks up to adulthood.
A new study investigates the multiple social, biological, and programmatic factors that associate adolescent pregnancy with early child undernutrition in India.
Six Youth Commissioners discuss the mental health issues facing young people in their countries—Canada, Uganda, Zambia, China, India, and New Zealand.
Sophie van der Schoor and Nicole van Veenendaal join The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to discuss their study on preterm infants.
Clare Mackie joins The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to discuss the effects of increasing cannabis potency on adolescent health.
Monica Vavilala joins The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to talk about the Paediatric Guideline Adherence and Outcomes Program in severe traumatic brain injury.
Lola Solebo and Jugnoo Rahi discuss their work on the long-term outcomes of intraocular lens implantation for children born with cataracts.
Jeremy Walsh joins The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to talk about his study of the effect of screen time on children's health.
Susan Shelmerdine and Owen Arthurs join The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to discuss their work on using CT scans in post-mortem for diagnostic accuracy of rib fractures in children.
Young people are disproportionately affected by sexual assault, yet longitudinal data are sparse. Sophie Khadr joins The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to talk about her new paper on the topic.
Francesca Solmi speaks to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health about the association between psychotic experiences and disordered eating behaviours in adolescence.
Alice Albright, CEO of The Global Partnership for Education, joins The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to talk about forging stronger partnerships between health and education, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Giuseppe Plazzi talks to The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health about the first trial of sodium oxybate as a treatment for paediatric narcolepsy.
Philip Bryan joins The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health to discuss the safety of multicomponent meningococcal group B vaccine (4CMenB) in the UK’s infant immunisation programme.
Vicky Baker joins The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health to discuss the underexplored area of adolescent-to-parent abuse.
In this The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health podcast, Lorna Fern talks about the differences inherent in diagnosing adolescents with cancer.