Table of Contents
Editorial
| Noise pollution and children | |
| GN Lucas | 1-2 |
Leading Article
| Rational prescribing in paediatrics | |
| Shalini Sri Ranganathan | 3-7 |
Original Articles
| School drop out and fallout from idiopathic epilepsy in rural Sri Lanka | |
| ACD de Alwis, SH Kariyawasam, C Weerasinghe | 8-11 |
| An analysis of the quality of paediatric prescription writing among medical officers in a teaching hospital | |
| GKC Guruge, T Sorubarajan, MVF Jayasuriya | 12-16 |
Current Practice
| Caring for children with Down syndrome: a medical checklist | |
| Manouri P Senanayake | 17-19 |
Snippets
| Snippets from the world wide web | |
| BJC Perera | 20-21 |
Case Reports
| A case of ataxia telangiectasia | |
| A Jeyabalan, Savithri Dias | 22-23 |
| A case of persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia of infancy (PHHI) successfully treated with diazoxide | |
| ANK de Silva, SP Gunasekera, K Guruge | 24-25 |
| A case of neurofibromatosis with Chiari malformation type 1, syringobulbia and duplex system of the kidney | |
| Sujeewa Amarasena, LL Sudeva, Ajith Hettigama, Padmini Kolombage | 26-29 |
Picture Story
| Prune belly syndrome | |
| MN Lucas, HMKN Hathlahawatta, D Samarage | 30 |
Obituary
| Dr P R Walpita – Paediatric Surgeon | |
| Sanath P Lamabadusuriya | 31-32 |
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