Impact of mid day meal program on educational and nutritional status of school children in Karnataka_ 1221
A. Laxmaiah, K.V. Rameshwar Sarma, D. Hanumantha Rao, Ch. Gal Reddy, M. Ravindranath, M. Vishnuvardhan Rao and K. Vijayaraghavan R.K.Kapoor, Lokendra Singh, S. Mehrotra,P.K. Mishra and Mahesh Chandra

Personal Practice

Current trends in management of the beta thalassemias_ 1229
Dheeraj Shah, Panna Choudhury and A.P. Dubey

Brief Reports

Clinical profile and sero conversion pattern of children with HBsAg positivity^__1243
S. Sushama Bai, Lisa Francis, E.K. Vijayan, M.S. Suma, K.E. Urmila and Aleyamma Cherian

Seroprevalence of antibodies to hepatitis A virus among children in northern India_1248
Rakesh Aggarwal, Sita Naik, S.K. Yachha, S.R. Naik

HIV infection in children: Indian experience^__1250
S.R. Daga, Bela Verma and D.V. Gosavi

Current status of prevalence of goiter and iodine content of salt consumed in district Solan, Himachal Pradesh^__ 1253
K.S. Sohal, T.D. Sharma, Umesh Kapil and Monica Tandon

Pediatric emergencies in otolaryngology in a metropolitan city_1256
Sunil Kumar and Achal Gulati

Case Reports

Mediastinal yolk sac tumor-A rare presentation^__1259
Milind S. Tullu, Chandrahas T. Deshmukh, Pradeep Vaideeswar, Burjor A. Bharucha and Priyanka K. Arora

Imerslund-Grasbeck Syndrome^__1262
Guner Karatekin, Betul Sezgin, Semra Kayaoglu and Asiye Nuhoglu

Bacteremia due to Gemella morbillorum^__1264
Purva Mathur, Benu Dhawan, Lalit Kumar, L.S. Arya and Rama Chaudhry

Cornelia de Lange syndrome: Discordance in Twins^__1267
Sheela S.R.

Radiological demonstration of ascaris in esophagus^__1270
Dheeraj Gandhi, Deep N. Srivastava, Bobby Batra and Satish Chandra
Immunization Dialogue

Postexposure prophylaxis in hepatitis B infection^__1273
Ramesh Agarwal

Integrating BCG and HBV into the immunization schedule^__1274
R. Parvathy

Images in Clinical Practice

Ataxia telangiectasia_1278
Vikram Datta and Pushpa Chaturvedi

Letters to the Editor

Inienchephaly in a live born and not Klippel Feil syndrome^__1279
S.R. Phadke

Reply^__1279
R.L. Suman and Minal Savani

Brachioradialis reflex^__1280
Jatinder S. Goraya

Brachioradialis reflex^__1281
D. Meikandan

Reply^__1282
Veena Kalra and Rekha Mittal

Evidence Based Medicine

Adherence to anti-tuberculosis treatment_1285
Meenu Singh

Caffeine and asthma_1286
Meenu Singh

Global Update 1289

Book Review 1293

Clippings 1294
Reviewers 1297

Author Index 1299

Subject Index 1306