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Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Human Rhinovirus are the most frequent cause of respiratory tract infections in infants and children and are major triggers of acute viral bronchiolitis, wheezing and asthma exacerbations.

The behavioral phenotype of neurogenetic disorders associated with intellectual disability often includes psychiatric comorbidity. The objectives of this systematic review and meta-analysis were to systematically review the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and symptoms in children and adolescents

Vigilant Attention (VA), defined as the ability to maintain attention to cognitively unchallenging activities over a prolonged period of time, is critical to support higher cognitive functions and many behaviours in our everyday life. Evidence has shown that VA rapidly improves throughout childhood and adolescence until young adulthood and tends to decline in older adulthood.

The purpose of this study is to examine the association between poverty and child mental disorders

The Parents, Young People and Alcohol campaign achieved high awareness and positively influenced parental outcomes

Liquor store availability in early adolescence may be a risk factor for alcohol intake in early and middle, but not late, adolescence

Self-reported experiences of adolescents in population-based samples when completing health-related surveys on topics with varying potential for evoking distres

We review the available empirical evidence on the cognitive, physical, and surgical implications of puberty suppression in gender-incongruent children and adolescents

Further research is required to identify the optimal age, content and length of mindfulness programs for adolescents in universal prevention settings.

The RACP is advancing a three-tier strategy to build greater specialist capacity and sustain leadership in adolescent and young adult medicine