1. Editorial

   • Edouard Gugler

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S1 - S3

2. Editorial

   • Martin H. Schöni

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S4 - S4

3. The curriculum vitae of Professor Ettore Rossi

   • F. Vassella

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S5 - S8

4. Advances in cystic fibrosis: Bringing the bench to the bedside

   • Lynn M. Taussig

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S9 - S10

5. Paediatric gastro-enterology: Out of children's shoes?

   • Michael J. Lentze

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S11 - S12

6. Assessment of lung function in infants and young children with lung disease

   • R. Kraemer

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S13 - S17

7. From observation to experimentation: Lessons from the past

   • G. Duc

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S18 - S19

8. Current concepts of bacterial meningitis

   • Urs B. Schaad

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S20 - S22

9. Practical paediatrics in a general district hospital

   • V. D'Apuzzo

   Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S23 - S25

10. Forty years of paediatric research in inborn errors of metabolism

    • Ulrich N. Wiesmann

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S26 - S27

11. Preventive and therapeutic AIDS peptide vaccines

    • A. Rubinstein
    • S. Cryz

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S28 - S29

12. Molecular biology and its application in paediatric endocrinology

    • Primus E. Mullis
    • Johannes K. Wagner

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S30 - S39

13. The value of family investigations in newly detected Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in children

    • J. Lütschg
    • H. J. Müller
    • N. J. Malik

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S40 - S43

14. Factors predicting the risk of relapse after antiepileptic drug discontinuation in children with partial seizures

    • Filippo Donati
    • Ralph I. Hassink
    • Franco Vassella

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S44 - S47

15. Development of motion perception in early infancy

    • Franz Kaufmann

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S48 - S53

16. Mechanisms of bilirubin toxicity

    • Maurizio Amato

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S54 - S59

17. Immunthrombocytopenic purpura as a model for pathogenesis and treatment of autoimmunity

    • P. Imbach
    • J. Akatsuka
    • H. P. Wagner

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S60 - S64

18. Histological features of glomerular immaturity in infants and small children with normal or altered tubular function

    • H. C. Thóny
    • C. M. Luethy
    • M. G. Bianchetti

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S65 - S68

19. The age at onset of chronicPseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in cystic fibrosis —prognostic significance

    • C. Aebi
    • R. Bracher
    • R. Kraemer

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S69 - S73

20. Mycobacterium genavense invasive infection in two children with AIDS: Long-term followup

    • Didier Reymond
    • Peter Birrer
    • Urs B. Schaad

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S74 - S76

21. Compliance with therapy in children with respiratory diseases

    • Martin H. Schöni
    • Elisabeth Horak
    • Wilfried H. Nikolaizik

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S77 - S81

22. Adults with congenital heart disease —the important role and obligation of the paediatric cardiologist and the general paediatrician

    • Franco P. Stocker

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S82 - S84

23. Psychosocial aspects in the treatment of children with myelomeningocele: An assessment after a decade

    • Anna Rüdeberg
    • Filippo Donati
    • Georges Kaiser

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S85 - S89

24. Screening for retinopathy of prematurity after surfactant treatment

    • Daniela Brunner-Di Pietro
    • Emilio Bossi
    • Fritz Koerner

    Living Pediatrics Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Professor E. Rossi, Berne, Switzerland Pages: S90 - S94