EDITORIAL

Pediatric endocrinology: Future perspectives                            651
Meena Desai

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Pediatric clinical pharmacology – a discipline for rational therapeutics                        655
Y.K. Amdekar

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Inheritance pattern of Von Willebrand’s disease: A study of 26 cases                  645
B.C. Mehta, M.B. Agarwal, P.C. Bhanotra and Suryaprabha M. Rao

Chronic constipation in children                                          669
K. Yadav

Customs and beliefs on neonatal care in a tribal community                                  675
S.S. Mohapatra and R.K. Baag

Hemoglobin status in neonates                                      679
N. Haridas and P.T. Acharya

Hematological values in the newborn in relation to the time of clamping of the umbilical cord     685
Pervin Ahmed, Anees Jomal and K.N. Ahmed

An etiological and psychological study of mentally regarded children
Abha Mudgil, S.B. Singh and J.R. Srivastava

Ulcerative colitis in children                                                695
P.R. Shah, H.R. Chauhan and A.B. Desai

Growth pattern of preschool children in tribals of Orissa                                                      701
S.K. Behera, N.C. Samal, S.S. Mohapatra and A.K. Chopdar

PRACTITIONER’S COLUMN                                           709

Dental Caries: Role of pediatrician     
Balvir S. Tomar

BRIEF REPORTS

Myxofibroma mandible
B.P. Kalani S. Gerami and P. Haghighi

Congenital agammaglobulinemia: Pan-hypo-gammaglobulinemia                                           716
T. Malati and C. Kusuma Kumari

Reye’s syndrome associated with influenza A and B virus                                     719
B. Lalitha Rao, M.A. Phadke and A.S. Joshi

Iniencephaly with several rare associated anomalies                                      722
B. Bhandari, S.K. Tak, R. Mehta and R.K. Agarwal

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Watch-out for hypernatremia                                   725
H. Paramesh

Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome                                                   726
Suraj Gupte

BOOK REVIEW                                                                                                                          727