Current Issue

Editorial
Immunoprophylaxis of respiratory syncytial virus infection
- Eric A.F Simoes - 243
Presidential Address
XXXVII National Conferences of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, January 27,2000
- Swati Y Bhave - 249

Academy Matters - 259
Original Articles
Identification of an appropriate strategy to control anemia in adolescent girls of poor communities. -Anshu Sharma, Kanti Prasad and K. Visweswara Rao. - 261

Sustained hypertension in children - -Arivind Baggaa and Rajendra N. Srivastava - 268

Personal Practice
Helicobacter Pylori infection in children -Ujjal Poddar and B.R Thapa - 275

Essentials of Biostatistics
6. Reference values in medicine and validity of diagnostic test -- A. Indrayan and L. Satyanarayana - 285

Brief Reports
Profile of complaints and clinical syndromes of children under 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Implications for the implementation of the integrated management of childhood illness strategy.
-Antonio jose Ledo alves da Cunha, Rosana alves, ekatarine Goudois, Claudia S. orfalhais and ana maria G. sant' Ana - 296

Clinical response to two days of oral amoxycillin in children with non-severe pneumonia
Shally Awasthi - 301

Seasonality of births and possible factors influencing it in a rural area of Haryana, India
K. Anand, G. Kumar, S. Kant and S.K. Kapoor - 306

Feeding practices in under-fives during diarrhea before and after educational intervention
Mangala S., Gopinath D., Narasimhamurthy N.S. and Shivaram C. - 312

Case Reports

Variable clinical phenotypes of velocardiofacial syndrome in a pair of brothers
- Munni Ray, Pratibha Singhi, Prabhiyot Mathi and Anil Bhalla - 315

Aortic aneurysm in a child with tuberous sclerosis
- S. B Bavdekar, P. Vaideeswar, R.H bukane, D. k. sahu and J.R Kamat - 319

Uric acid nephropathy as an unusual cause of actual renal failure in a neonate
- Arvind Shenoi and Kishore D. Phadke - 322

Anticonvulsant induced osteomalacia
- Jatinder S. goraya, P. N. Gupta, Ravi k. Gupta, Raj Bahadur and V. R Parmar - 325

Systemic toxicity with cyclopentolate eye drops
- S. S Bhatia, c. Vidyashankar, R. K sharma and A.K Dubey. - 329

Immunization Dialogue - 332

Shelf Life of vaccines in multidose vials
- R. S Mathotra - 332

BCG Vaccination
- Sudhakar Joshi - 332

Intertriginous xanthomas - A Marker of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia
- G. Sethuraman, Devinder Mohan Thappa and K. Karthikeyan - 338

Letters to the Editor

Cooling arm to the solar warming system for newborn babies- S. R Daga - 339

Trends in antimicrobial resistance of shigella species isolated from children with acute diarrhea - S. K. Niyogi, P. Dutta and U. Mitra - 339

Spontaneous rupture of umbilical hernia in an infant - Utpal Kant Singh, Shivani Singh, Purnenndu Ojha and Ranjeet Kumar - 341

Investigation of an epidemic of Reye's syndrome in northern region of India - D.G. Benakappa and Vanitha J. - 342

Reye's syndrome - An interesting epidemiological correlation - Vipin M . Vashishtha and J.P Sharma - 343