Editorial
Prevention and control of
iron deficiency anemia amongst young childrenUmesh Kapil 293
Original Articles
Anemia prophylaxis in
adolescent school girls by weekly or daily iron-folate supplementation
K.N. Agarwal, S. Gomber, H. Bisht and M Som 296
Follow up of survival and
quality of life in children after intensive careM. Jayashree,
S. C. Singhi and P. Malhi 303
Personal Practice
Thermostability of vaccines
Mrudula K. Lala and Kamlesh R. Lala 311
Recommendations
Polio eradication committee
of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, year 2003 320
Brief Reports
Which patients are at risk?
Evaluation of the morbidity and mortality in newborn pneumothorax
Zekeriya Ilηe, Gφkhan Gόndogdu, Cem Kara, Barboros Ilikkan and Sinan
Celayir 325
Prevalence of antibodies to
hepatitis A and hepatitis E virus in urban school children in Chennai
B. Mohanavalli, E. Dhevahi, Thangam Menon, S. Malathi and S.P.
Thyagarajan 328
Prevalence of overweight
and obesity in affluent adolescent girls in Chennai in 1981 and 1998
Vedavati Subramanyam, Jayashree R and Mohammad Rafi 332
Clinical and nutritional
profile of children with celiac disease A.K. Patwari, V.K.
Anand, Gaurav Kapur and Shashi Narayan 337
Initiation of lactation and
establishing relactation in outpatients Shobha Banapurmath,
C.R. Banapurmath and Nirmala Kesaree 343
Case Reports
Pneumatosis coli: A benign
form of necrotising enterocolitis J. N. Travadi, S. K. Patole
and K. Gardiner 349
Acute renal failure due to
acute tubulointerstitial nephritis R. Premalatha, Kishore D.
Phadke, Isha Garg and Pritilata Rout 352
Diamond-Blackfan anemia:
Report of 6 cases Mamta Manglani, M.R. Lokeshwar and Ratna
Sharma 355
Fibular hemimelia
Anoop Verma and Shirish Yadu 359
Images in Clinical Practice
Macrodystrophia Lipomatosa
Anoop Verma and Shirish Yadu 363
Letters to the Editor
Aphallia Y.K.
Sarin and A. Sinha 367
Post injection sciatic
nerve injury Bina Ahuja 368
Plasmodium falciparum
malaria with coexisting parvovirus B19 infection N. Urganci,
M. Arapoglu and N. Kayaalp 369
Trisomy 22 with Unusual
Phenotype V. Babu Rao, K. Seema, K. Lily, K. Ghosh and D.
Mohanty 371
Prevalence of night
blindness amongst pregnant women of urban slum communities in Delhi: A
pilot study Priyali Pathak and Preeti Singh 372
Indigenous visceral
leishmaniasis: Two cases from Kerala Ananda Kesavan, V.K.
Parvathy, Shiela Thomas and S.P. Sudha 373
In the wake of mutant virus
of measles and immunization strategy K.B. Kulkarni 374
Improving oxygenation in
preterm neonates with respiratory distress S.K. Patole., L.
McGlone and D. Hares 376
Arthrogryposis Multiplex
Congenita Spinal muscular atrophy association
N.B. Mathur,
Jitender Nagpal, Medha Tatke and R.K. Saran 377
Baby friendly hospitals:
How friendly are they? N.C. De 378
Global Update
381
Pedscapes
382
Clippings
384