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Pediatrics — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed pediatrics literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

  1. 16h ago

    This Week in Pediatrics — Nov 1, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Prone positioning and high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in early paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PROSpect): an international, two-by-two factorial, response-adaptive, phase 3, randomised controlled trial (The Lancet, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning critical care and airway management, the evidence base of neonatal intensive care, and the infectious disease and care-delivery questions facing general pediatric… This week's papers: 1. Prone positioning and high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in early paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PROSpect): an international, two-by-two f… — The Lancet 2026 2. Videolaryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy for nasotracheal intubation in infants undergoing cardiac procedures (NasoVISI): a multicentre, randomised control… — The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 2026 3. Non-invasive ventilation for general paediatricians. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 4. Pharmacological treatment of patent ductus arteriosus and mortality risk in preterm infants: a Bayesian meta-analysis across gestational age groups. — The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 2026 5. Timing of intratracheal administration of budesonide mixed with surfactant to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 6. Clinical effects of multi-strain probiotics in extremely preterm infants: a multicenter pre-post implementation study in the Netherlands. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 7. Early Detection of Cerebral Palsy in Ireland: A National NICU Implementation Initiative. — Journal of Pediatrics 2026 8. Impact of a large measles outbreak associated with transmission in the Americas and Canada's loss of measles elimination status: descriptive cohort study. — BMJ 2026 9. Influenza vaccination effectiveness in children with underlying medical conditions: a case-control study. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 10. Pediatric Hospital at Home: A Scoping Review. — Pediatrics 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/h5n6zrt6kp

  2. Oct 26

    This Week in Pediatrics — Oct 26, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Mobile Subthreshold Exercise Program (MSTEP) for Youth With Prolonged Concussion Recovery: A Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA Pediatrics, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning vaccine policy and infection prevention, prenatal and family exposures, and adolescent health from sleep to concussion. Let's dive in. This week's papers: 1. Projected Effect of 2026 Federal Changes to the Childhood Immunization Schedule on Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infections in the United States. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 2. Beyond RSV: why the bronchiolitis burden in infants will not simply disappear. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 3. Childhood Cancer Risk After Assisted Reproductive Technology. — JAMA 2026 4. ¿Aumenta la exposición prenatal al paracetamol el riesgo de trastorno del espectro autista y trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad? Una revisión… — Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2026 5. Children and Families Affected by Parental Substance Use: Clinical Report. — Pediatrics 2026 6. Mobile Subthreshold Exercise Program (MSTEP) for Youth With Prolonged Concussion Recovery: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA Pediatrics 2026 7. Evening Phone Use and Sleep Outcomes Among Youth. — JAMA Pediatrics 2026 8. Oral Health for Adolescents: Clinical Report. — Pediatrics 2026 9. Obesity in Children Aged 2 to 12 Years: A Review. — JAMA 2026 10. Prehospital Pediatric Ventilation Quality Following Use of a Feedback Device: A Randomized Study. — Pediatrics 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/suzcs32r3v

  3. Oct 19

    This Week in Pediatrics — Oct 19, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Optimizing Antibiotic Duration for Pneumonia and Sinusitis in the Pediatric Emergency Department (Pediatrics, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning adolescent mental health, prenatal medication and substance exposures, and how we treat acutely ill children from the emergency department through the neonatal un… This week's papers: 1. Estimates of Anxiety Symptoms Among US Adolescents. — JAMA Pediatrics 2026 2. Problematic Social Media Use and Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents. — Pediatrics 2026 3. Prenatal Exposure to Delta 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Child Neurodevelopment: A Critical Windows Analysis. — Journal of Pediatrics 2026 4. Benzodiazepine Use Early in Pregnancy and Risk for Congenital Malformations. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 5. Optimizing Antibiotic Duration for Pneumonia and Sinusitis in the Pediatric Emergency Department. — Pediatrics 2026 6. Caustic ingestion in children: A prospective analysis of poor outcome key predictors useful for clinical management optimization. — Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 2026 7. Association of Early Primary Care Follow-Up With Acute Care Use After ICU Discharge. — Pediatrics 2026 8. Impact on mortality of inhaled nitric oxide in newborns ≤34 weeks with early hypoxemic respiratory failure: systematic review and meta-analysis. — Pediatric Research 2026 9. Aspirin dose and coronary artery lesions in Kawasaki disease: a two-center retrospective comparative effectiveness study. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 10. Clesrovimab in the new era of RSV prevention: one season, one dose, one chance. — Pediatric Research 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/u9rew24pmz

  4. Oct 12

    This Week in Pediatrics — Oct 12, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Evaluation of a Commercial Pediatric Sepsis Early Detection Alert in the Emergency Department (JAMA Pediatrics, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning infection detection and antibiotic stewardship, immunisation and its downstream effects, and the management of chronic and developmental conditions from HIV to eg… This week's papers: 1. Evaluation of a Commercial Pediatric Sepsis Early Detection Alert in the Emergency Department. — JAMA Pediatrics 2026 2. Short- versus long-course antibiotic therapy in non-severe CAP in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 3. Antibiotic Choice for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children With Medical Complexity. — Pediatrics 2026 4. Feasibility and clinical outcomes of short-course intravenous antibiotic therapy in neonates under 28 days with urinary tract infection. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 5. Nirsevimab reduced acute otitis media infections in infants-a nationwide interrupted time-series analysis. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 6. Streptococcus pneumoniae haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Aotearoa New Zealand across changing pneumococcal conjugate vaccine eras. — Archives of Disease in Childhood 2026 7. Safety, antiviral activity, and pharmacokinetics of long-acting cabotegravir plus long-acting rilpivirine in virologically suppressed adolescents living with H… — The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 2026 8. Oral Propranolol Versus Topical Timolol for the Treatment of Infantile Haemangiomas: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. — Acta Paediatrica 2026 9. Who fails the egg ladder? Predictors of reactions and clinical outcomes with individualized entry-step selection in 197 children with IgE-mediated egg allergy. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 10. Therapeutic Horseback Riding for Youth With Autism and Psychiatric Comorbidities: A Randomized Trial. — Pediatrics 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/n5q3hn2zrx

  5. Oct 5

    This Week in Pediatrics — Oct 5, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Adjunctive mild controlled hypothermia for moderate necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants: a prospective cohort study with external contemporaneous controls (European Journal of Pediatrics, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning neonatal intensive care and its aftermath, infant feeding and infection prevention, and the systems shaping adolescent health and safety. Let's dive in. This week's papers: 1. Adjunctive mild controlled hypothermia for moderate necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants: a prospective cohort study with external contem… — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 2. Early-onset neonatal sepsis and neonatal antibiotic exposure in Hungary a nationwide population-based study. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 3. Life after the NICU: targeting modifiable factors to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born extremely preterm. — Pediatric Research 2026 4. Vitamin B12 in early childhood: a phenotype-guided approach to deficiency and unexpectedly elevated concentrations. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 5. Exclusive and Any Breastfeeding, Infant Formula Feeding, and Childhood Growth. — Pediatrics 2026 6. Consumption of Unpasteurized (Raw) Milk and Milk Products by Pregnant People and Children: Policy Statement. — Pediatrics 2026 7. Small quantity lipid-based nutritional supplementation and measles vaccination coverage in children aged 6-23 months: a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial. — Nature Medicine 2026 8. Child and Adolescent All-Cause Mortality in the United States vs Peer Nations: 1935-2023. — Pediatrics 2026 9. Emergency Hold Use in Youth With Mental Health Concerns Presenting to the Emergency Department. — Pediatrics 2026 10. Recommendations for the Development and Implementation of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools in Pediatric Clinical Care: Policy Statement. — Pediatrics 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/er8mj6wdg2

  6. Sep 28

    This Week in Pediatrics — Sep 28, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Pediatric Literacy Promotion for Latino Families by Texts and Referrals: A 3-Arm RCT (Pediatrics, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning antimicrobial and drug stewardship in our most fragile patients, decision-making that avoids over-medicalizing newborns, and the behavioural and developmental sid… This week's papers: 1. Antibiotic Duration and Critical Illness After Culture-Negative Late-Onset Sepsis Evaluation in Infants Born Preterm. — Journal of Pediatrics 2026 2. Reserve antibiotics in paediatrics: single-centre clinical experience and antimicrobial stewardship implementation. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 3. Prenatal Risk Stratification with Early Non-Invasive Monitoring Reduces Unnecessary Medicalization in Patients with Coarctation of the Aorta. — Journal of Pediatrics 2026 4. Airway management and postoperative respiratory recovery after intravitreal injection in preterm infants. — Pediatric Research 2026 5. Combination therapy with furosemide and metolazone as compared to furosemide alone for treatment of edema in children with nephrotic syndrome: a randomized con… — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 6. Effectiveness and Safety of Intravenous Iron Formulations in Children with Iron Deficiency. — Journal of Pediatrics 2026 7. Pediatric Literacy Promotion for Latino Families by Texts and Referrals: A 3-Arm RCT. — Pediatrics 2026 8. Behavioral Interventions in Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Management: An Updated Meta-Analysis. — Pediatrics 2026 9. Prevalence and Treatment of US Children with Congenital Heart Disease and ADHD: A National Survey Analysis. — Journal of Pediatrics 2026 10. Food Allergies Are Associated With a Substantially Higher Burden of Atopic Comorbidities and Increased Healthcare Use. — Acta Paediatrica 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/vwk6w93rqe

  7. Sep 21

    This Week in Pediatrics — Sep 21, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Care of the Infant With Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Clinical Report (Pediatrics, 2026) Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning congenital cytomegalovirus screening and its downstream evaluations, nutrition and gastrointestinal care from intestinal failure to scurvy, and risk recognition i… This week's papers: 1. Care of the Infant With Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Clinical Report. — Pediatrics 2026 2. Implementing Congenital CMV Screening in a Large Hospital System. — Pediatrics 2026 3. Eye Findings Following Congenital Cytomegalovirus Newborn Screening. — Pediatrics 2026 4. Safety and long-term effectiveness of teduglutide in children with intestinal failure due to short bowel syndrome: a multicenter, post-marketing cohort study. — Pediatric Research 2026 5. A nationwide multicenter observational study on childhood scurvy in Japan. — Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 2026 6. Current practices and unmet needs in the management of Clostridioides difficile infection in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: A national survey. — Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 2026 7. Epidemiology, multimorbidity patterns and outcomes of paediatric sepsis admissions in Ireland 2020-2025. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 8. Incidence and Risk Factors of Late-Onset Hypoglycemia in Extremely Low Gestational Age or Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants. — Acta Paediatrica 2026 9. Is methylphenidate truly cardiac-safe? Insight from biventricular speckle tracking echocardiography in pediatric patients with attention deficit hyperactivity… — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 10. Adolescents' Experiences of Online Harms by Platform. — JAMA Pediatrics 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/9gt6kawcan

  8. Sep 14

    This Week in Pediatrics — Sep 14, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Treatment and Outcomes of Kawasaki Disease Over 40 Years (Pediatrics, 2026) Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning firearm injury and the social determinants of critical illness, bedside recognition of the deteriorating child, cardiac disease and the developing brain, and prec… This week's papers: 1. Trends in Pediatric Firearm Injuries: 2016-2023. — Pediatrics 2026 2. Association of Community Factors, Firearm Laws, and Pediatric Firearm Injuries. — Pediatrics 2026 3. Association between sociodemographic factors, neighbourhood cigarette smoke exposure and critical illness due to respiratory condition among paediatric populat… — Archives of Disease in Childhood 2026 4. Evolving landscape of paediatric sepsis: progress, gaps and the next generation of tools. — Archives of Disease in Childhood 2026 5. POCUS for the general pediatrician: a narrative review of practical applications, policy, and training. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 6. Treatment and Outcomes of Kawasaki Disease Over 40 Years. — Pediatrics 2026 7. Brain injury in congenital heart disease: pathophysiology, MRI patterns, and perioperative risk factors. — Pediatric Research 2026 8. Exocrine pancreatic function and highly effective modulators: A dual center retrospective study. — Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 2026 9. Clinical and immunological predictors of baked egg tolerance in children with IgE-mediated hen's egg allergy: a cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy study. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 10. Rett syndrome: MECP2 biology, multisystem pathophysiology, and the evolving therapeutic landscape. — European Journal of Pediatrics 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/9u2kve579g

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Pediatrics — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed pediatrics literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.