Study on lung function tests and prediction equations in Indian male children –
P. Sitarama Raju, K.V.V. Prasad, Y. Venkata Ramana, Syed Kabir Ahmed and K.J.R. Murthy 705

Are primary health workers skilled enough to assess the severity of illness among young infants? – Sutapa Bandyopadhyay, Rajesh Kumar, Sunit Singhi and Arun K. Aggarwal  713

Diagnosis and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation – Sameer Bakhshi and L.S. Arya 721

Alternative learning strategies – Piyush Gupta, Ghanshyam D. Kumhar and Dheeraj Shah 731

The IMS Act 1992: Need for more amendments and publicity – Satish Kamtaprasad Tiwari and Pushpa Chaturvedi 743

Rigid pediatric bronchoscopy for bronchial foreign bodies with and without Hopkins telescope – N.N. Mathur and Tapaswini Pradhan 761

Use of verbal autopsy by health workers in under-five children – Baridalyne Nongkynrih, K. Anand and S.K. Kapoor 766

Impact of bed side communication with fathers on their anxiety about newborn –Harmesh Singh, Daljit Singh, Puneet A Pooni and R.K. Soni 772

Distal spinal muscular atrophy of upper limb (Hirayama disease) associated with high serum lead levels – Devendra Mishra, Anu Agrawal and V.K. Gupta 780

Pulmonary gangrene complicating bacterial pneumonia – Paras R. Kothari, Ashish Jiwane and Bharati Kulkarni 784

Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) – Luciana Brandão Paim, Bernadete de Lourdes Liphaus and Clovis Artur Almeida da Silva 786

Atopic dermatitis – Rajesh Sankar 793

Late hemorrhagic disease of newborn – K.K. Locham and Manpreet Sodhi 793

Reply – Edwin D’Souza and S.D. Subba Rao 794

Nebulised Adrenaline in Wheeze Associated Respiratory Tract Infections – A.P. Gupta 795

Reply – Varinder Singh 795

Are isolated preauricular tags a marker of urinary tract anomalies – Devendra Mishra, Archana and V.K. Gupta 796

Hemoglobin estimation method – L. Satyanarayana 798

Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia in a patient with repaired eventration of diaphragm – Chhabi Ranu Gupta and Meera Luthra 798

Laparoscopic removal of twisted ovarian cyst in a 22 hour old neonate – Amar Shah and Anirudh Shah 800

Adverse effects due to poor patient understanding of anti-epileptic medication prescriptions – Sudhir Kumar 801

Should infants with aphallia be raised as females? – Sunil Tiwari  802