BMJ  2006;333 (16 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39063.556042.47

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New beginnings

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As the year comes to a close, so too does one of the BMJ's great institutions. This week we publish the last article in the last of our ABC series. ABCs first appeared in the BMJ in 1978—the brain child of the then editor, Stephen Lock. Over the years they have been praised and criticised in equal measure, and with the move of ABC books (part of BMJ Books) to Blackwell Publishing and the forthcoming relaunch of the BMJ, this seemed the right moment to stop our serialisations.

In their place we are creating a range of new series in the Practice section, aimed at helping to bridge the gap between primary and secondary care and between research and practice. We see this section as representing the "how" of medicine, the place in the journal where, as far as possible, our authors report on the areas of certainty . . . [Full text of this article]

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