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Registry-recorded antibiotic prescriptions beginning in later childhood were associated with IBS at age 24 in a Swedish cohort. Higher prescription counts accompanied higher odds, but the findings do not establish causality or when symptoms began.

Australian adolescents who reported eating more fruit and drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages were less likely to cross depression or anxiety screening thresholds over three years, although the observational findings did not establish causality.

Nurses and NPs accounted for a small share of youth mental health visits but more often treated older, socioeconomically vulnerable patients, with substantial regional differences in this national observational analysis using data through 2019.

An international guideline recommends a more structured, phenotype-driven approach to genetic testing in children with short stature, identifying clinical characteristics that increase diagnostic yield while outlining when testing is and is not warranted.

A review of prematurity-associated lung disease (PLD) argues that respiratory follow-up should extend beyond early childhood and focus on current symptoms and lung-function trajectories rather than relying exclusively on a history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

Using the television comedy “Abbott Elementary” as a framework, a pediatric resident explores parallels between teaching and pediatrics, arguing that both professions are sustained by a deep commitment to children while facing chronic underinvestment, workforce shortages, and moral injury.