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24 December 2005 (Vol 331, No 7531)
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Editorials

Sharing evidence on humanitarian relief
Edward J Mills
BMJ  2005;331:1485-1486, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1485 [Extract]121 [Full text]957 [PDF]274  

How Islam changed medicine
Azeem Majeed
BMJ  2005;331:1486-1487, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1486 [Extract]416 [Full text]4169 [PDF]884  

How Google is changing medicine
Dean Giustini
BMJ  2005;331:1487-1488, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1487 [Extract]681 [Full text]7669 [PDF]1825  

Choice
Paul Bate, Glenn Robert
BMJ  2005;331:1488-1489, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1488 [Extract]177 [Full text]1531 [PDF]292  

Happiness
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2005;331:1489-1490, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1489 [Extract]319 [Full text]3788 [PDF]782  

On the case

White coats and fingerprints: diagnostic reasoning in medicine and investigative methods of fictional detectives
Claudio Rapezzi, Roberto Ferrari, Angelo Branzi
BMJ  2005;331:1491-1494, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1491 [Full text]3782 [PDF]938 [extra: Extra figures]294  

Doctors, detectives, and common sense
Alexander McCall Smith
BMJ  2005;331:1495-1497, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1495 [Full text]2769 [PDF]774  

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Megan S C Lim, Margaret E Hellard, Campbell K Aitken
BMJ  2005;331:1498-1500, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1498 [Abstract]991 [Full text]7128 [PDF]1524 [extra: Further information]275  

Stains on the carpet
Julia Handysides, Stuart Handysides
BMJ  2005;331:1501, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1501 [Full text]2519 [PDF]366  

The emergence of ringing vertigo
Trevor Jackson
BMJ  2005;331:1502-1503, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1502 [Full text]1508 [PDF]279  

Barbering in mice: a model for trichotillomania
Biji T Kurien, Tim Gross, R Hal Scofield
BMJ  2005;331:1503-1505, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1503 [Full text]1173 [PDF]235  

Harry Potter casts a spell on accident prone children
Stephen Gwilym, Dominic P J Howard, Nev Davies, Keith Willett
BMJ  2005;331:1505-1506, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1505 [Full text]3296 [PDF]716  

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll

Revisiting the lot of the first incestuous family: the biblical origins of shifting the blame on to female family members
Ilan Kutz
BMJ  2005;331:1507-1508, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1507 [Full text]2768 [PDF]672  

Sex symbols ancient and modern: their origins and iconography on the pedigree
G D Schott
BMJ  2005;331:1509-1510, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1509 [Full text]7522 [PDF]1056  

Seen from the other side: visual experiences during cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia
Kuang Hu, Stephen Scotcher
BMJ  2005;331:1511, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1511 [Full text]1304 [PDF]270  

Shape of glass and amount of alcohol poured: comparative study of effect of practice and concentration
Brian Wansink, Koert van Ittersum
BMJ  2005;331:1512-1514, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1512 [Abstract]497 [Full text]1998 [PDF]747  

Interventions for preventing or treating alcohol hangover: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Max H Pittler, Joris C Verster, Edzard Ernst
BMJ  2005;331:1515-1518, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1515 [Abstract]842 [Abridged PDF]237 [Full text]4669 [PDF]1400  

Depictions of substance use in reality television: a content analysis of The Osbournes
Nicole A Blair, So Kuen Yue, Ranbir Singh, Jay M Bernhardt
BMJ  2005;331:1517-1519, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1517 [Abstract]160 [Full text]2307 [PDF]315 [extra: Table (pdf)]106  

Professional matters

The wealth of distinguished doctors: retrospective survey
I C McManus
BMJ  2005;331:1520-1523, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1520 [Abstract]455 [Full text]2333 [PDF]544 [extra: Extra information and figures]148  

Judging a book by its cover: descriptive survey of patients' preferences for doctors' appearance and mode of address
Marianne M Lill, Tim J Wilkinson
BMJ  2005;331:1524-1527, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1524 [Abstract]398 [Full text]2660 [PDF]779 [extra: Further information]243  

Patients bearing gifts: are there strings attached?
Sean A Spence
BMJ  2005;331:1527-1529, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1527 [Full text]1850 [PDF]417  

Medical faculty members at different professorial levels
Student
BMJ  2005;331:1530, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1530 [Full text]1723 [PDF]548  

Medical history

Beatty's box
M K H Crumplin, R Pearce
BMJ  2005;331:1531-1532, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1531 [Full text]846 [PDF]217  

Painting the history of cardiology
David Lomas
BMJ  2005;331:1533-1535, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1533 [Full text]1047 [PDF]421  

Influenza, 1918
Iain H Wilson
BMJ  2005;331:1536, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1536 [Full text]1383 [PDF]534  

What's in a name?

Epidemiology and prognosis of coma in daytime television dramas
David Casarett, Jessica M Fishman, Holly Jo MacMoran, Amy Pickard, David A Asch
BMJ  2005;331:1537-1539, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1537 [Abstract]314 [Full text]1214 [PDF]450  

From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles
Neville W Goodman
BMJ  2005;331:1540-1542, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1540 [Abstract]171 [Full text]1125 [PDF]466 [extra: Extra information (pdf)]133  

Cinderella revisited
Stewart M Cameron
BMJ  2005;331:1543-1544, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1543 [Abstract]219 [Full text]1218 [PDF]336 [extra: Extra references]96  

Thoughts for today

Obesity: the elephant in the corner
David Ogilvie, Neil Hamlet
BMJ  2005;331:1545-1548, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1545 [Full text]3947 [PDF]837  

What is successful ageing and who should define it?
Ann Bowling, Paul Dieppe
BMJ  2005;331:1548-1551, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1548 [Full text]3125 [PDF]726  

Slow tracking for BMJ papers
Christopher Martyn
BMJ  2005;331:1551-1552, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1551 [Full text]1387 [PDF]176  

Fillers

The 10 commandments of the diabetic foot
Nikolaos Papanas, Efstratios Maltezos, Audrey Edmonds, Michael Edmonds
BMJ  2005;331:1497, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1497 [Full text]1931 [PDF]622  

Just say "No"
James Craggs
BMJ  2005;331:1514, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1514 [Full text]1911 [PDF]289  

Physician, know thyself
Boris Veysman
BMJ  2005;331:1529, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1529 [Full text]2346 [PDF]489  

Second thoughts
M W H Behan, R Veasey, M Higson, A N Sulke
BMJ  2005;331:1552, doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1552 [Full text]1172 [PDF]187  

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