British Medical Journal - Christmas Issue

 

Editor’s choice

	Orthopaedic gorillas no more
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2007;335, doi:10.1136/bmj.39430.559375.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	Reducing the harms of alcohol in the UK
	Ian Gilmore, Nick Sheron
	BMJ  2007;335:1271-1272, doi:10.1136/bmj.39426.523715.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Combating poverty: the charade of development aid
	Dan J Ncayiyana
	BMJ  2007;335:1272-1273, doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.432951.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Web 3.0 and medicine
	Dean Giustini
	BMJ  2007;335:1273-1274, doi:10.1136/bmj.39428.494236.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Sport

	Competing risks of mortality with marathons: retrospective analysis
	Donald A Redelmeier, J Ari Greenwald
	BMJ  2007;335:1275-1277, doi:10.1136/bmj.39384.551539.25 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of altitude on physiological performance: a statistical analysis using results of international football games
	Patrick E McSharry
	BMJ  2007;335:1278-1281, doi:10.1136/bmj.39393.451516.AD [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Champagne: the safer choice for celebrations
	Robert J Douglas
	BMJ  2007;335:1281, doi:10.1136/bmj.39419.449942.AD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of energy expenditure in adolescents when playing new generation and sedentary computer games: cross sectional study
	Lee Graves, Gareth Stratton, N D Ridgers, N T Cable
	BMJ  2007;335:1282-1284, doi:10.1136/bmj.39415.632951.80 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	“Did you see it? Where did it go?”
	David E Price, Robert M Redfern
	BMJ  2007;335:1284, doi:10.1136/bmj.39406.712743.AD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Mixed Messages

	Accuracy of comparing bone quality to chocolate bars for patient information purposes: observational study
	Phil Jones, Sarah Jones, Debbie Stone
	BMJ  2007;335:1285-1287, doi:10.1136/bmj.39413.798472.BE [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dissent of the testis
	Gareth Williams, Poonam Dharmaraj
	BMJ  2007;335:1287, doi:10.1136/bmj.39415.755752.AD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical myths
	Rachel C Vreeman, Aaron E Carroll
	BMJ  2007;335:1288-1289, doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.420370.25 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references] FREE

	Screening programme evaluation applied to airport security
	Eleni Linos, Elizabeth Linos, Graham Colditz
	BMJ  2007;335:1290-1292, doi:10.1136/bmj.39419.662998.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Excuse me!
	J Granville-Chapman, R L Dunne
	BMJ  2007;335:1293, doi:10.1136/bmj.39422.578970.DE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Street slang and schizophrenia
	Oliver D Howes, Sara Weinstein, Paul Tabraham, Lucia Valmaggia, Matthew Broome, Philip McGuire
	BMJ  2007;335:1294, doi:10.1136/bmj.39419.647118.25 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Pimp my slang
	Paul W Keeley
	BMJ  2007;335:1295, doi:10.1136/bmj.39414.699005.94 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Death messengers
	Mandeep R Mehra, Patricia A Uber, Hector O Ventura
	BMJ  2007;335:1296-1297, doi:10.1136/bmj.39409.501435.AE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ghost in the machine?
	Andreas Kopka
	BMJ  2007;335:1298, doi:10.1136/bmj.39408.651053.AD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Altered states

	Origins of magic: review of genetic and epigenetic effects
	Sreeram V Ramagopalan, Marian Knight, George C Ebers, Julian C Knight
	BMJ  2007;335:1299-1301, doi:10.1136/bmj.39414.582639.BE [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Classically intoxicated: correlations between quantity of alcohol consumed and alcohol related problems in a classical Greek text
	Christopher C H Cook, Helen Tarbet, David Ball
	BMJ  2007;335:1302-1304, doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.333565.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Death delusion
	Anders Helldén, Ingegerd Odar-Cederlöf, Kajsa Larsson, Ingela Fehrman-Ekholm, Thomas Lindén
	BMJ  2007;335:1305, doi:10.1136/bmj.39408.393137.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The strange malady of Alessandro’s uncle
	Neil A (Tony) Holtzman
	BMJ  2007;335:1306-1307, doi:10.1136/bmj.39407.647014.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

History

	The beautiful skull and Blumenbach’s errors: the birth of the scientific concept of race
	Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  2007;335:1308-1309, doi:10.1136/bmj.39413.463958.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Public health activism: lessons from history?
	Virginia Berridge
	BMJ  2007;335:1310-1312, doi:10.1136/bmj.39399.612454.AD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	London’s last remaining Georgian workhouse infirmary under threat
	Nick Black
	BMJ  2007;335:1312, doi:10.1136/bmj.39426.438877.DE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Enduring beliefs about effects of gassing in war: qualitative study
	Edgar Jones, Ian Palmer, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2007;335:1313-1315, doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.533461.25 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Visiting times
	Sadia Ismail, Graham Mulley
	BMJ  2007;335:1316-1317, doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.392373.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Climate change—2057
	Robin Stott
	BMJ  2007;335:1318-1319, doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.654583.25 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Retirement

	Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling
	Sam Shuster
	BMJ  2007;335:1320-1322, doi:10.1136/bmj.39414.552060.BE [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Life after retirement
	Peter Froggatt
	BMJ  2007;335:1323-1324, doi:10.1136/bmj.39419.431944.AD [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

	A day in the life of a doctor: The PowerPoint presentation
	David Isaacs, Stephen Isaacs, Dominic Fitzgerald
	BMJ  2007;335:1292, doi:10.1136/bmj.38994.480845.DE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A day in the life of a doctor: The computer
	David Isaacs, Stephen Isaacs, Dominic Fitzgerald
	BMJ  2007;335:1304, doi:10.1136/bmj.38994.462801.DE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Observe cases minutely, improve in my profession, write to the Lancet
	Frank Rugman
	BMJ  2007;335:1315, doi:10.1136/bmj.39416.469595.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Horrible phenomena! Galvanism
	BMJ  2007;335:1319, doi:10.1136/bmj.39415.745000.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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