1. Day-care and otitis media in young children: a critical overview

   • M. M. Rovers
   • G. A. Zielhuis
   • G. J. van der Wilt

   REVIEW Pages: 1 - 6

2. Prevalence of complementary/alternative medicine for children: a systematic review

   • E. Ernst

   SPECIAL ARTICLE Pages: 7 - 11

3. Parental attitude towards alternative medicine in the paediatric intensive care unit

   • M. Moenkhoff
   • O. Baenziger
   • S. Fanconi

   SPECIAL ARTICLE Pages: 12 - 17

4. Angiotensin I converting enzyme and angiotensinogen gene polymorphisms related to 24-h blood pressure in paediatric type I diabetes mellitus

   • M. Pavlovic
   • R. W. Holl
   • D. Lang

   ENDOCRINOLOGY Pages: 18 - 23

5. Thyroid antibodies in children of mothers with auto-immune thyroid disease

   • R. Heithorn
   • B. P. Hauffa
   • D. Reinwein

   ENDOCRINOLOGY Pages: 24 - 28

6. Computed tomography scan assessment of lung disease in primary immunodeficiencies

   • T. Newson
   • A. J. Chippindale
   • A. J. Cant

   IMMUNOLOGY / ALLERGOLOGY Pages: 29 - 31

7. Isoprinosine does not protect against frequent respiratory tract infections in childhood

   • J. Litzman
   • J. Lokaj
   • G. Morgan

   IMMUNOLOGY/ALLERGOLOGY Pages: 32 - 37

8. The role of acoustic rhinometry in the diagnosis of adenoidal hypertrophy in pre-school children

   • H. Riechelmann
   • J. M. O'Connell
   • W. J. Mann

   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE Pages: 38 - 41

9. Use of permissive hypercapnia in the ventilation of infants with respiratory syncytial virus infection

   • S. M. Tibby
   • I. U. Cheema
   • I. A. Murdoch

   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE Pages: 42 - 45

10. Rationale for the German recommendations for phenylalanine level control in phenylketonuria 1997

    • P. Burgard
    • H. J. Bremer
    • K. Ullrich

    METABOLIC DISEASES Pages: 46 - 54

11. The neurogenic weakness, ataxia and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP) syndrome mtDNA mutation (T8993G) triggers muscle ATPase deficiency and hypocitrullinaemia

    • B. Parfait
    • P. de Lonlay
    • A. Munnich

    METABOLIC DISEASES Pages: 55 - 58

12. Predicting length-of-stay in preterm neonates

    • B. Zernikow
    • K. Holtmannspötter
    • K.-H. Hennecke

    NEONATOLOGY Pages: 59 - 62

13. Comparison of sucrose and human milk on pain response in newborns

    • R. Örs
    • E. Özek
    • M. Başaran

    NEONATOLOGY Pages: 63 - 66

14. Necrotising enterocolitis: is there a relationship to specific pathogens?

    • C. S. Peter
    • M. Feuerhahn
    • C. F. Poets

    NEONATOLOGY Pages: 67 - 70

15. Neonatal neutropenia associated with maternal hypertension poses a risk for nosocomial infection

    • P. H. Gray
    • R. L. Rodwell

    NEONATOLOGY Pages: 71 - 73

16. Successful stenting of congenital bronchial stenosis in infancy

    • M. Tateno
    • H. Tomita
    • Y. Shichinohe

    PNEUMOLOGY Pages: 74 - 76

17. A 30-month-old child with systolic murmur and temporal bruit

    • H. Narchi

    YOUR DIAGNOSIS? Pages: 77 - 78

18. Fibronectin and meningococcal disease

    • F. Leclerc
    • R. Cremer
    • C. Fourier

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 81 - 81

19. Reply

    • F. A. I. Riordan

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 82 - 82

20. Maternal phenylketonuria in two Sicilian families identified by maternal blood phenylalanine level screening and identification of a new phenylalanine hydroxylase gene mutation (P407L)

    • G. Corsello
    • P. Bosco
    • V. Romano

    RESEARCH LETTERS Pages: 83 - 84

21. Diagnosing bleeding Meckel diverticulum in children

    • F. Andıran
    • F. Cahit Tanyel
    • A. Hiçsönmez

    RESEARCH LETTERS Pages: 84 - 84

22. Childhood Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis in Russia

    • A. A. Diomina
    • L. V. Spirikhina
    • M. O. Volkova

    RESEARCH LETTERS Pages: 85 - 85

23. Genotypic and phenotypic resistance under zidovudine and lamivudine therapy in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children

    • M. Funk
    • R. Linde
    • W. Kreuz

    RESEARCH LETTERS Pages: 86 - 87

24. A child with eosinophilic bronchopneumonia

    • T. Akiba
    • T. Sato

    RESEARCH LETTERS Pages: 87 - 87

25. Cure of latex allergy by bone marrow transplantation

    • V. Wahn
    • H.-J. Laws
    • S. E. G. Burdach

    RESEARCH LETTERS Pages: 88 - 88