Frontiers In Pediatrics

The vast field of pediatrics has been undergoing significant development at a fast pace in the recent past. The advances in primary and tertiary care cover a wide range of topics affecting the child at different stages of development-from fetus to the adolescent. Many of these advancement have a direct bearing on the quality of health care and the clinical practice in the speciality. Howsoever these topics may be important, it takes considerable time for the information to reach the busy clinician through the traditional literature like textbooks. Frontiers in pediatrics aims to inform the pediatricians and the professionals on all the advances taking place in the speciality that are likely to influence the current thinking on the relevant issues and the clinical practice. This volume should update and sensitize the pediatricians on such significant developments that have direct relevance to the milieu of a developing country. Some of the topics included in this compilation would also be of interest to the policy makers and those responsible for delivery of health care to the nation's children.