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Those working in clinical trials will recall that in 2025 updates were published for the SPIRIT standard clinical trial protocol items and the CONSORT guideline for reporting randomised clinical trials.

Dr Jason Nagata discusses his Review on muscle dysmorphia, a pathological preoccupation with being insufficiently muscular, and how paediatricians can help young people navigate body image concerns.

Ableism is a type of discriminatory bias, like racism and sexism for example, that speaks particularly to the idea that there is one standard human norm that exists and any ways of being human that don't meet this standard are considered inferior. In this episode with neonatologist and developmental paediatrician Dr Paige Church we discuss the presence of ableism in paediatrics, and child and adolescent health at large.

Dr Rachel Reid-McCann (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) speaks with Acting Editor-in-Chief Ali Landman about her recent paper "Longitudinal association between dysmenorrhoea in adolescence and chronic pain in adulthood: a UK population-based study".

Zulfiqar Bhutta, Georgia Dominguez, and Naeha Sharma join acting Editor-in-Chief Ali Landman to discuss their Health Policy paper "Who protects the children and women of Sudan?"

Ann Yeh, Professor of Paediatrics and neurologist in Toronto, Canada, highlights the global considerations in preventing MS disease progression in young people with MS.

Deputy Editor Josefine Gibson speaks to three commissioners about advancing neonatal medicine and the importance of interdisciplinary, inclusive research that centres on the health rights and care needs of newborn children

Thora Halldórsdóttir and Kristín Sigurdardottir, join us to talk about the key findings from the study they led in Iceland that provides the first nationwide, population-based estimate of incidence and prevalence of autism, ADHD, and co-occurring autism-ADHD in young people without intellectual impairment.

Kyeng Mercy and Nuria Sanchez Clemente take us through the continental response to mpox, the Africa CDC data on mpox in children younger than 15 years, and African priorities in response to the mpox public health emergency.

Dr Anna Giolito and Professor Naïm Ouldali join Josefine Gibson to discuss their latest research on dexamethasone for paediatric pneumococcal meningitis.

Deborah Fry from Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute talks with Amy Slogrove about the first global prevalence study of Online Childhood Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.Content warning: This conversation is about child sexual abuse. Please consider your own emotional and psychological safety and do whatever you feel is needed to safeguard yourself. Behind every number is a child. If you or someone you know needs support for child sexual exploitation and abuse, or if you are concerned that you might hurt a child, please visit Child Helpline International (https://childhelplineinternational.org) or Stop It Now (https://www.stopitnow.org).

Kathy Pritchard-Jones (University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK) joins Ali Landman in conversation about tumour staging in childhood cancer, international standardisation of health data collection, and how to improve childhood cancer survival.

A conversation about the LEAPS trial and the importance of early childhood care and education to child and adolescent health.

Professor Akash Deep joins Josefine Gibson in conversation about paediatric acute liver failure and when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation.

In this conversation we grapple with the complexity of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and discuss the Viewpoint published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health on "Asking difficult questions about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, in the context of the child, the mother, and the systems in which they live".

Paediatric Sepsis Series contributors Nelson Sánchez-Pinto and Luregn Schlapbach join Josefine Gibson to mark World Sepsis Day 2024.

Marisa Stahl and Edwin Liu join Amy Slogrove in conversation about their review in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health on coeliac disease, the commonest autoimmune disease in children, and what we can learn from prospective longitudinal studies.

Prof Marie Claire van Hout joins Dr Josefine Gibson to discuss the rights to health of children living in prison with their primary caregiver.

Miriam Beauchamp discusses the Review she lead in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health on improving outcome after concussion in children and adolescents, how to prevent it, how to optimise outcomes when concussion events do occur and future research directions.

Prof Erik Melén joins Jack Williamson to discuss the links between climate change and allergic diseases in children and adolescents.

Our Youth Advisory Panel members join Jane Godsland to discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on young lives.

Our Youth Advisory Panel members Bridget Bould, Tariro Kambeu, and Chiamaka Nwachukwu join Esther Lau to discuss nutrition in children and young people.

Our Youth Advisory Panel members Hamaiyal Sana and Egle Janusonyte join Sophia Davis to discuss gender equity in young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Dr Zuyi Fang and Dr Ilan Cerna-Turoff join Sophia Davis to discuss the new prevalence estimates of violence against children with disabilities.

Mariesa Cay and Jaymin Upadhyay join Soph Davis to discuss childhood maltreatment and its effects on chronic pain and psychopathology, through a neurobehavioural model.

John Leddy joins Soph Davis to discuss using light aerobic activity in the treatment of sports-related concussion in adolescents.

Ana Cristina Simões e Silva joins Esther Lau to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on children and adolescents in Brazil.

Susan Walker & Ramya Srinivasan join Jane Godsland to discuss the clinical and social risk factors for involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation in children and adolescents.

Didier Jourdan & Nicola Gray join Jane Godsland to discuss how and why child health professionals should be supporting schools to become the foundation of a healthy life.

Four young people from the UK share their experiences of life during the pandemic: the challenges they are facing, their worries, and their hopes for the future.

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.