Active engagement of adolescents and youth in adolescent-focused studies aims to improve the quality of research and the translation of findings into everyday care, and to give researchers a greater u...

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A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly publishing standards.1,2 As editors and members of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), we receive queries about these “predatory” or “pseudo” entities and are subject to their deception when they target our authors and reviewers. The number of predatory journals is difficult to accurately determine but was estimated at more than 15 000 in 2021.3 While the ICMJE Recommendations include warnings about predatory publishing,4 the Committee believes that the large number of increasingly bold predatory entities warrants shining a bright light on them and considering actions stakeholders can take to counter their deceptive efforts.

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50 years. In the context of strengthening primary health care, our results show that equitable universal access to immunisation remains crucial to sustain health gains and continue to save future lives from preventable infectious mortality.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says warning labels should be updated to increase awareness of links to seven types of cancer.