This reader-friendly resource provides a powerful, broad-based perspective on the most important advances from throughout the world literature. Featuring renowned guest editors and focusing exclusively on three to six topics, every issue of Current Opinion in Pediatrics delivers unvarnished, expert assessments of developments from the previous year. Insightful editorials and on-the-mark invited reviews cover key subjects such as hematology and oncology; neonatology and perinatology; infectious diseases and immunization; adolescent medicine; gastroenterology and nutrition; dermatology; genetics; and office pediatrics (a standard feature in every issue)—some 25 items in all of major relevance. All reviews are supplemented with an indispensable section, "References and Recommended Reading". At the back of each volume is "Current World Literature", an exceptionally thorough bibliography culled from several hundred top journals in the field. Both sections are completely annotated and, as an added benefit, appropriate papers are flagged for their "special" or "outstanding interest".