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Christmas videos
What to drink with a Swiss cheese fondue
There are conflicting claims about the pros and cons of drinking alcoholic beverages with food, especially high fat and high energy meals such as cheese fondue. A team from the University Hospital...
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Fatal alchemy
Miracle beauty products may be a staple Christmas present today, but they're not a recent invention. Diane de Poitiers, a French noble woman and mistress of Henry...
Phantom vibrations
Have you ever felt your phone or pager vibrate in your pocket when it's not ringing. If so, a paper published in the BMJ shows you're not alone...
Was trinkt man zum Käsefondue?
Es gibt widersprüchliche Aussagen bezüglich der Vor- und Nachteile, Alkohol zu Mahlzeiten zu trinken - insbesondere Mahlzeiten die sehr fettreich und energiehaltig...
Atul Gawande - Lifebox interview
Atul Gawande, lead advisor for the WHO’s Safe Surgery Saves Lives program and founder and chairman of Lifebox, talks about the work of the charity which was chosen as this year's BMJ Christmas...
Beethoven's deafness and his three styles
That Beethoven suffered from deafness is well known, but how did the progression of the condition affect his composition?
In this video the Isolo string quartet demonstrate how his style...
The giant's cause
Charles Byrne's acromegaly meant that after his death in 1783 his cadaver was snatched by the surgeon John Hunter.
His skeleton is now displayed in the Hunterian Museum: should it be buried...
Cliff and C. diff
Sniffer dogs are often seen in airports, but Cliff, the beagle from Amsterdam, is more at home in a hospital. Cliff has been trained to sniff out the bacteria clostridium difficile, which is...
Why Rudolph’s nose is red
Artiodactyl nasal physiology is not a typical BMJ topic, but in this Christmas video we find out why Rudolph's nose is red, and what that has to do with medicine.
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Surgery re-enacted
Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College London, is concerned that in the rush for the new, old surgical techniques may be lost.
Have a look behind the scenes at...
