Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning preventive health and vaccine implementation, advances in neonatal and infant intensive care, and practical updates in pediatric emergency medicine and gastroenterology. Let's dive in. We begin with a critical look at preventive health and immunization strategies, starting with a large-scale study published…

This week's papers:

Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Pediatric Death in the United States: 2016-2025. — Pediatrics 2026
Parenteral Lipid Dose and Bilirubin Neurotoxicity in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Factorial Randomized Trial. — The Journal of pediatrics 2026
Diagnostic accuracy study assessing the ability of paediatric asthma scores to predict admission following initial emergency department bronchodilator therapy: a Clinical Asthma Scoring systems in Paediatric Emergency (CASPER) study. — Archives of disease in childhood 2026
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization Disparities in Mothers and Infants at the Birth Hospitalization: A Cross-Sectional Study. — The Journal of pediatrics 2026
KP.2-Adapted BNT162b2 COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Effectiveness in Children. — The Journal of pediatrics 2026
Comparison of Crohn's disease exclusion diet and exclusive enteral nutrition in prospectively followed paediatric patients with Crohn's disease. — Pediatric research 2026
Home and in-hospital phototherapy as comparable select routine approach for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. — Pediatric research 2026
Cost-benefit analysis of nirsevimab for respiratory syncytial virus prevention in infants: a population-based study. — European journal of pediatrics 2026
Multimodal neuromonitoring in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and the association with neurodevelopmental outcomes: A Multicenter Study. — The Journal of pediatrics 2026
Long-term recurrence and acute seizure clustering in children with convulsions with mild gastroenteritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. — European journal of pediatrics 2026