Published 30 July 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3088
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3088

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Transparency is a major theme in this week’s BMJ. It’s explicit in Rosalind Smyth’s editorial on making information about clinical trials publicly available (doi:10.1136/bmj.b2473). She explains how trial registration in Europe has come through an unusual route, through regulations on testing drugs for use in children. These require all trials of paediatric drugs conducted in Europe to be made publicly available on the EudraCT database. There seemed no logic to insisting on information on trials in children but not in adults, so now the database will include protocols of all trials, with a requirement for results to be available too.

Perhaps surprisingly, transparency also emerges as an important element in improving the world’s supply of healthy food. In their article on the causes and effects of rising food prices Karen Lock and colleagues describe how agricultural subsidies favour high fat, energy dense foods at the expense of . . . [Full text of this article]

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