Welcome to This Week in Pediatrics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advances in genetics and neurodevelopment, the long-term consequences of the perinatal period, and new insights into preventing and managing infectious diseases. Let's dive in. [PAUSE] Our first theme explores the rapidly moving field of genetics and neurodevelopment, with papers highlighting a new therapeuti…

This week's papers:

Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Incomplete Vaccination in Swedish Two-Year-Olds-A Nationwide, Population-Based Cohort Study. — Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) 2026
Automated oxygen flow titration for infants with bronchiolitis: a multicentre randomised controlled trial. — Archives of disease in childhood 2026
Antibody fine specificity correlates with protection from malaria for the RTS,S vaccine in young African children: A post hoc analysis of a phase IIb randomised controlled trial. — PLoS medicine 2026
First-trimester nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs exposure and risk of major congenital malformations: A retrospective register-based cohort study. — PLoS medicine 2026
An X-linked long non-coding RNA, PTCHD1-AS, and the core features of autism. — Nature 2026
Lineage and organ signals sequentially build organ intrinsic nervous systems. — Nature 2026
The role of choline in neurodevelopment. — Pediatric research 2026
Smaller coronary artery size in adults born preterm. — Pediatric research 2026
Neuroepithelial Tumor with AAV Integration after Intracisternal Magna Vector Delivery. — The New England journal of medicine 2026
In vivo adenine base editing ameliorates Dravet syndrome phenotypes in a mouse model. — Science translational medicine 2026