EDITORIAL

Supplementary nutrition programmes                                                      431
Y.C. Mathur

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Status of DPT vaccination programme                                                               435
R.N. Basu

Sodium valproate in the treatment of childhood epilepsies                                               439
M.C. Maheshwari

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

A new bed side technique of bilirubin estimation                                              447
D.K. Guha, K.K. Verma, Sunita Bhatia, Manju  Verma and Radha Krishnan

Mortality in infants discharged from NICU                                              453
S.R. Daga

Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of rotavirus in acute gastroenteritis        457
S.K. Nakra, S.K. Mittal and Ratna Sarkar

Rapid diagnosis of salmonella                                                         463
J.N. Sarvamangala Devi, A. Venkatesh and P.G. Shivananda

Serum, copper, zinc, magnesium and calcium in neonates                                 469
A.P. Gupta, B. Bhandari and Abha Gupta

Twinning and structural defects                                                           475
S.B. Shah and D.N. Patel

Parasitic infestations in primary school children                                            479
K. Subbannayya, A. Kumar, K.N.A. Rao and P.G. Shivananda

Sugar intolerance in acute gastroenteritis in infancy and childhood                                      485
V.K. Srivastava, V.K. Anand, P.S. Murthy and K.M. Prabhu

Vitamin-A deficiency in pre-school children                                                         491
Suneela Garg, Sushila Nayar, Arvind Garg and S. Sane

BRIEF REPORTS

De Sanctis and Cacchione’s syndrome                                                            497
K.N. Sarveswari, S. Sumitra, P. Yesudian and A. Zahra

Robert’s syndrome                                                      500
S.B. Shah, V.S. Deshpande, R. Kalyani and D.N. Patel

Carcinoma of thyroid                                                                     502
R.K. Marwah, S.M. Agarwal, K.K. Yateeshan, A. Rajwanshi and P.U. Iyer

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Neutrophil dysfunction and repeated infections                                             506
G. Kolandaivelu, S. Radhakrishnan and R. Venkatesan

Pulmonary tuberculoma                                                                 506
Lt. Col. N.C. De

BOOK REVIEW 

Renal insufficiency in children                                                           508