Dear Pediatrician:

Welcome to the Spring 2006 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting edition of Dateline, delivered to you by the editors of Contemporary Pediatrics!

For the next four days, our editors and correspondents will bring you important news about your specialty and for your practice from the floor of the 2006 PAS Annual Meeting in the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. Each day, digests of the meeting's important, and pertinent, clinical and investigational news will arrive in your electronic in-box from the City of the Golden Gate - news that's been gathered from the Annual Meeting's scientific sessions, research forums, and press briefings.