Dear Readers,
December is a special month for all of us. Before Christmas we  sum up our yearly achievements and make plans for the next year. December 2011 is also a special month for me as I finish my second term as the eJournal IFCC Editor-in-chief.

Grazyna Sypniewska
eJIFCC Editor-In-Chief 2007-2011
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Collegium Medicum,
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Bydgoszcz, Poland

• NANOPARTICLES: IS TOXICITY A CONCERN?

• PENTRAXIN 3 AS A NOVEL MARKER IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES?

• PREVALENCE OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI IN DIFFERENT SURGICAL DISEASES: A PRELIMINARY REPORT

• THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE WITHIN NORMAL RANGE DOES NOT AFFECT BONE TURNOVER IN EUTHYROID POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURE - A PRELIMINARY REPORT

• SIGNIFICANCE OF K(L/V)WX(I/L/V)P EPITOPE OF THEβ2GPI IN ITS (PATHO)PHYSIOLOGIC FUNCTION

• "2011 YEAR OF THE CHEMIST" - Phil Gold

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: "TAXONALITY: A USEFUL NEOLOGISM"