Seasons greetings from your librarians and library technicians based at FSH and RPH
BMJ's Christmas collation - A selection follows.
2023
Cheers not tears: champagne corks and eye injury - 20 December
Association of health benefits and harms of Christmas dessert ingredients in recipes from The Great British Bake Off: umbrella review of umbrella reviews of meta-analyses of observational studies - 20 December
Bug in a mug: are hospital coffee machines transmitting pathogens? - 18 December
Effect of a doctor working during the festive period on population health: natural experiment using 60 years of Doctor Who episodes (the TARDIS study) - 18 December
Analysis of Barbie medical and science career dolls: descriptive quantitative study - 18 December
An elf service for the NHS: individual doctors can lead digital transformation from the bottom up - 14 December
Medicine - a performing art - BMJ - 11 December 2023
Efficacy of cola ingestion for oesophageal food bolus impaction: open label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial - BMJ - 11 December 2023
2022
BMJ's Christmas collation Submissions to the BMJ for Christmas articles. There are more on the BMJ site. A selection follows
Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking: Monty Python inspired laboratory based experimental study - BMJ - 21 December 2022
On the 12th Day of Christmas, a Statistician Sent to Me . . . - BMJ - 20 December 2022
Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study (DUNCS): biscuit based comparative study - BMJ - 19 December 2022
A Christmas themed physical activity intervention to increase participation in physical activity during Advent: pilot randomised controlled trial - BMJ - 19 December 2022
Digital disparities among healthcare workers in typing speed between generations, genders, and medical specialties: cross sectional study - BMJ - 19 December 2022
MJA
Meals and movies: making our microbiota merry - MJA - 7 December 2022
“Harry Potter and the Multitudinous Maladies”: a retrospective population-based observational study of morbidity and mortality among witches and wizards - MJA - 7 December 2022
The Paediatric Aussie Chocolate Poo Scale - MJA - 7 December 2022
The Smithsonian Barbie Letter and the Samizdat of Science Humor - The Scholarly Kitchen - 2 December 2022
The Conversation - articles on Christmas
2021
Twas the night before Christmas - JoHILA - Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia - December 2021
Reading About Libraries and Librarians - The Scholarly Kitchen - 16 December 2021
The Top Retractions of 2021. From Star Trek to ivermectin, we look back on some of the most notable about-faces in publishing this year - The Scientist - 21 December 2021
How COVID vaccines shaped 2021 in eight powerful charts - Nature - 16 December 2021
Just a smidge, or a bridge too far? Slang use in the ICU – BMJ – 16 December 2021
Of research and robots: making sense of chance findings – BMJ – 16 December 2021
The holly and the ivy: a festive platter of plant hazards -BMJ – 15 December 2021
Giving science the finger—is the second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) a biomarker of good luck? A cross sectional study – BMJ – 15 December 2021
Heavy metal toxicity and mortality—association between density of heavy metal bands and cause specific hospital admissions and mortality: population based cohort study – BMJ – 15 December 2021
Ghost in the machine or monkey with a typewriter—generating titles for Christmas research articles in The BMJ using artificial intelligence: observational study – BMJ – 15 December 2021 – BMJ – 15 December 2021
We all fall down: head injuries in nursery rhyme characters – BMJ – 15 December 2021
Nature's 10 - Ten people who helped shape science in 2021 - 15 December 2021 - Winnie Byanyima: Vaccine warrior; Friederike Otto: Weather detective; Zhang Rongqiao: Mars explorer; Timnit Gebru: AI ethics leader; Tulio de Oliveira: Variant tracker; John Jumper: Protein predictor; Victoria Tauli-Corpuz: Indigenous defender; Guillaume Cabanac: Deception sleuth; Meaghan Kall: COVID communicator; Janet Woodcock: Drug chief
Decision makers need constantly updated evidence synthesis. Fund and use ‘living’ reviews of the latest data to steer research, practice and policy - Nature - 15 December 2021
Stretchy electronics go wireless for flexible wearables - Nature - 14 December 2021
Building utopia from disaster: could the pandemic show a way to better healthcare? An essay by Agnes Arnold-Forster - BMJ - 14 December 2021
Gatekeepers, wizards, and a mutual appreciation of each other’s kingdoms - BMJ - 14 December 2021
Listening to illness: hearing gout through music - BMJ - 14 December 2021
The end of the pandemic will not be televised - BMJ - 14 December 2021
Covid careers: how the pandemic changed my working life - BMJ - 14 December 2021
Bah humbug! Association between sending Christmas cards to trial participants and trial retention: randomised study within a trial conducted simultaneously across eight host trials - BMJ - 14 December 2021
From Love Actually to Christmas On The Farm: how rom-coms became a festive season staple - The Conversation - 14 December 2021
Association of Logic’s hip hop song “1-800-273-8255” with Lifeline calls and suicides in the United States: interrupted time series analysis - BMJ - 13 December 2021
...Editorial. A song of hope - BMJ - 13 December 2021
Anticipating the ageing trajectories of superheroes in the Marvel cinematic universe - BMJ - 13 December 2021
“It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery”—“It’s a walk in the park”: prospective comparative study - BMJ - 13 December 2021
Biased Outcome reporting Guidelines for Underwhelming Studies (BOGUS) statement and checklist - BMJ - 10 December 2021
A guide to the management of atrial fibrillation in Santa Claus - MJA - 12 December 2021
Garlic as a vampire deterrent: fact or fiction? - MJA – 12 December 2021
What is life? (A 2020–21 Victorian lament) – MJA – 12 December 2021
The CRECHE study: testing the urban myth that chocolate Santa Clauses are re-wrapped Easter Bunnies - MJA - 12 December 2021
“A banana a day keeps wound failure away”: comparing the utility of fruit, pig, and synthetic skins for suturing practice - MJA - 12 December 2021
What is life? (A 2020–21 Victorian lament) - MJA - 12 December 2021
Why cats obsess over Christmas trees - University of Melbourne - 10 December 2021
Presidential Pox, 1863 - The Scientist - 1 December 2021
No time to die: An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents - Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Nov-Dec 2021
BMJ's Christmas collation Submissions to the BMJ for Christmas articles
