Paediatric year in review

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Chairs: G. Hedlin (Stockholm, Sweden), E. Eber (Graz, Austria)
Aims: To give an update on recent and important literature published in the field of paediatric lung disease.

Paediatric asthma: everything that seemed to be certain, no longer is A. Boehmer (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Paediatric respiratory physiology – notes and news P. J. F. M. Merkus (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Paediatric respiratory epidemiology: asthma phenotypes – do they exist? C. Kuehni (Bern, Switzerland)