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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 of Zurich studied 20 people who drank either wine or black tea with this famous Swiss dish, followed by kirsch schnapps or water as a digestive. Find out more about their randomised controlled crossover trial in this nine minute video, which is also available in German.
Read about the science behind the video in the paper, Effect on gastric function and symptoms of drinking wine, black tea, or schnapps with a Swiss cheese fondue
Please, sir, I want some more
Today's children try out the Oliver Twist diet following a Christmas BMJ paper which analyses the gruel described in Charles Dickens' classic novel.
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 II of France, tried to use gold to preserve her looks - in alchemical law, gold was
immutable, and alchemists and apothecaries created various potions to pass this gift onto their customers.
For Christmas, the BMJ has made a video about a French research team's investigations of Diane's remains, and its discovery
that the gold she used to preserve her youth was actually slowly poisoning her.
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.
Read about the science behind the video in the paper, Phantom vibration syndrome among medical staff: a cross sectional survey
Michael Rothberg and Ashish Arora from Bayside Medical Center, Springfield MA discuss their research into this odd sensation.
Was trinkt man zum Käsefondue?
Es gibt widersprĂĽchliche Aussagen bezĂĽglich der Vor- und Nachteile, Alkohol zu Mahlzeiten zu trinken - insbesondere Mahlzeiten
die sehr fettreich und energiehaltig sind, wie zum Beispiel Schweizer Käsefondue. Ein Team des Zürcher Universitätsspitals
führte eine Studie durch, bei der 20 Teilnehmer entweder Weisswein oder schwarzen Tee zu dieser Schweizer Spezialität zu sich
nahmen, gefolgt von Kirschwasser oder Wasser zur Verdauung. In diesem neunminĂĽtigen Video - von dem es auch eine englischsprachige
Fassung gibt - stellen die Wissenschaftler ihre randomisierte Crossover-Studie vor.
Lesen Sie mehr ĂĽber den wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund dieser Originalarbeit. Effect on gastric function and symptoms of drinking wine, black tea, or schnapps with a Swiss cheese fondue
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 appeal.
A donation of ÂŁ160 can pay to equip an operating theatre with a pulse oximeter, www.lifebox.org/donations
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 changed over time.
Read about the science behind the video in the paper, Beethoven's deafness and his three styles.
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 at sea, as per "the Irish giant's" wishes, or do the benefits it provides to medical research win the moral argument?
Read all the arguments in the feature Should the skeleton of “the Irish giant” be buried at sea?
