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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is more than a decade old, but even today more than a third of all children are denied the right to an identity. Birth registration is the first legal document in which the name of the child gets entered along with the name of the parents. Globally, every year about 40 million children are born without being registered. Six out of ten unregistered newborns are in South and South-east Asia.(1) The registration of births and deaths in India was made compulsory under the Registration of Births and Deaths (RBD) Act, 1969. However, the current level of birth registration in India is 63.8% as per the latest 2005 provisional national estimates, which means that out of the estimated 26 million births taking place each year, approximately 9.4 million children (36.2%) go unregistered every year.(2) Taking these facts into consideration, this study was planned to assess the awareness about birth registration in an urban slum of Delhi.

Background: The World health organization (WHO) defines adolescents as individuals between the ages of 10–19 years and they make up about 20% of the world’s population. Under-nutrition is still highly prevalent among the adolescents of developing countries including India. Aims & Objective: The present study was undertaken to assess the age-sex trends of under nutrition among the adolescent age group school children of 11-18 years age group in District Gautambudh-nagar, Uttar Pradesh. Material and Methods: A Cross-sectional study was carried out in the Government schools in Bhangel, the urban field practice area of Department of Community Medicine. A questionnaire was administered to 392 school students (290 boys and 102 girls) of 11-18 years age group studying in VIth-XIIth standard. All the students were also subjected to measurement of height and weight. Body mass index (BMI) of all students was calculated. The heights and BMI of the students were then compared with the WHO 2007 reference standards. Results: The mean BMI was found to be less as compared to the WHO 2007 reference standards in both the sexes and the difference was found to be statistically significant in almost all age groups. The mean height was found to be less as compared to WHO reference for height in all age groups in both sexes and the difference was statistically significant in almost all age groups. Conclusion: The present study indicates that the nutritional status of the adolescent school children in our country is very poor.

Objective: To study the prevalence of ocular morbidities in children between 5 to 14 years in an urban resettlement colony of Delhi. Materials and method: It is a community based cross-sectional study in Kalyanpuri, an urban resettlement colony and the urban field practice area of department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. A semi-structured, pre-tested questionnaire was prepared and filled by the principal investigator himself. A stratified random sample of 650 children using the proportionate allocation method was taken for the study. This was about 10% of the estimated children's population of the colony. Data was tabulated & analyzed using SPSS for windows software version 10.5. Results: 25% of the study subjects were found to be suffering from some kind of ocular morbidity with 10.46% suffering from infectious & 15.69% from non-infectious disease.

Introduction: Care during Antenatal period is very important for the positive outcome of pregnancy. This study was conducted to study the antenatal practices in a rural population; role of various health functionaries in promoting healthy antenatal practices and factors affecting it. Methodology: The present study is a descriptive, community based field study done in Bisrakh block of district Gautam Budh Nagar. The study was conducted in all the villages of two randomly selected sub-center areas each from two randomly selected PHCs of Bisrakh Block. Observations: 40% of pregnant women visited 3 or more times for antenatal care (ANC), 12 % took 100 iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and 81% took Tetanus Toxoid (TT). Education of pregnant women was an important factor significantly associated with higher consumption of IFA tablets and higher number of visits for ANC. Conclusions: Major proportion of pregnant women do not avail the facilities provided by the Government. Education of pregnant women has a very strong bearing on their health care seeking behavior.

Objectives: Beneficiary satisfaction and utilization of ICDS services in sampled Anganwadi centers (AWCs) of Kashmir Division. Method: The community based study was conducted during June 2007 to June 2008. Total of 139 Anganwadi centers (AWCs) were selected from three districts (Baramulla, Anantnag & Srinagar) of Kashmir valley. Three registered beneficiaries (pregnant woman, nursing mothers & 3-6 year age children were randomly selected from the register available in the AWC & were contacted and interviewed regarding utilization & satisfaction of services provided in AWCs. Sampling method: Multistage sampling technique was used in this study. Results: 10.1% of pregnant women, 10.1% of nursing mothers and 21.3% children 3-6 year age respectively were receiving supplementary nutrition. Preschool education was received by 4.5% children. 12.4% pregnant women had received Tetanus Toxoid through AWCs. 9% of pregnant women, 7.9% nursing mothers and 6.75 of mothers of children of age 3 to 6 years were satisfied by services provided by AWCs. Conclusion: Majority of beneficiaries was aware of the services provided by the AWC but acceptance and utilization of services was miniscule. Overall beneficiary satisfaction was very low mainly due to poor quality of services provided at AWCs.

Ten patients with biopsy-proved synovial sarcoma were evaluated by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging on a 1.5-T unit. The lesions showed intermediate signal intensity on T1-weighted images and heterogeneous high signal intensity on T2-weighted images. Tumors were well-demarcated from normal tissues. Additional information included adjacent bone involvement (one case), femoral vein invasion by tumor (one case), and hemorrhage within the tumors (one case). Four patients underwent a repeat MR examination following chemotherapy. This showed a decrease in size and increase in the signal intensity of three tumors on T2-weighted images, proven to be due to necrosis in one. These changes correlated with clinical regression of disease. While MR in synovial sarcoma does not have any specific signal intensity, it proved to be useful in defining the extent of disease and in determining the response to chemotherapy.

The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) changes in 39 patients with malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) were reviewed retrospectively. Twenty-one sarcomas were in the lower extremity, five each in the upper extremity and trunk, two each in the neck and heart, and one each in the maxillary sinus, sella turcica, tongue, and spermatic cord. The examinations were performed with spin-echo sequences on a 1.5 Tesla Signa Scanner (GE, Milwaukee WI). Twenty-two tumors exhibited intermediate signal intensity on T 1 -weighted images and 23 were of high signal intensity on T 2 -weighted images. There was no significant difference in signal intensity of 12 preoperative and 13 recurrent neoplasms. Twelve of 13 patients were correctly diagnosed as having postoperative changes. The MR sensitivity and specificity for detecting a neoplasm were 96% and 83% respectively, but the signal changes were nonspecific for MFH. When compared to CT in 14 patients, MR better defined the extent of the MFH, its relationship to surrounding tissues and vessels, and best differentiated residual or recurrent disease from postoperative changes when examined at least 3 months after surgery.