19 December 2015(vol 351, issue 8038)

Editorials

• Siddharta Mukherjee’s three laws of medicine

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6708 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• Cancer’s Darwinian dilemma: an evolutionary tale in three acts

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6581 (Published 15 December 2015)

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• How to avoid the anger of ghosts

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6783 (Published 16 December 2015)

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• Responding to the needs of refugees

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6731 (Published 16 December 2015)

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Political Science

• “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6141 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• Do heads of government age more quickly? Observational study comparing mortality between elected leaders and runners-up in national elections of 17 countries

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6424 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• Parliamentary privilege—mortality in members of the Houses of Parliament compared with the UK general population: retrospective cohort analysis, 1945-2011

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6563 (Published 14 December 2015)

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Face time

• Plenty of moustaches but not enough women: cross sectional study of medical leaders

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6311 (Published 16 December 2015)

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• Austin Powers bites back: a cross sectional comparison of US and English national oral health surveys

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6543 (Published 16 December 2015)

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All in the mind

• Evidence of a Christmas spirit network in the brain: functional MRI study

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6266 (Published 16 December 2015)

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• Certificate in Reverse Psychology probably not worth it

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6296 (Published 16 December 2015)

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• Debunking the curse of the rainbow jersey: historical cohort study

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6304 (Published 14 December 2015)

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Infection control

• When Ebola came home

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6448 (Published 11 December 2015)

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• Zombie infections: epidemiology, treatment, and prevention

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6423 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• Bloodcurdling movies and measures of coagulation: Fear Factor crossover trial

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6367 (Published 16 December 2015)

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Call to action

• Everyone has a role in building a health creating society

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6654 (Published 16 December 2015)

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• Hominid spongyform encephalophagy: cooking time 1-1¹/₂ hours, difficulty ***

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6310 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• The ghost of donor passed

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6244 (Published 16 December 2015)

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Professional considerations

• AVERT² (a very early rehabilitation trial, a very effective reproductive trigger): retrospective observational analysis of the number of babies born to trial staff

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6432 (Published 11 December 2015)

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• Black medicine: an observational study of doctors’ coffee purchasing patterns at work

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6446 (Published 16 December 2015)

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• Three weeks among the Korowai people

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6469 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• MEMEs: modern evolutionary medical euphemisms

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6107 (Published 11 December 2015)

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• Death of a proverb

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6226 (Published 11 December 2015)

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• Are you pharmiscuous? Take our quiz!

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6353 (Published 16 December 2015)

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• COI bingo

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6577 (Published 16 December 2015)

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The publication game

• Freewheelin’ scientists: citing Bob Dylan in the biomedical literature

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6505 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• Use of positive and negative words in scientific PubMed abstracts between 1974 and 2014: retrospective analysis

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6467 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• Snowballing citations

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6309 (Published 14 December 2015)

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• Rejection of rejection: a novel approach to overcoming barriers to publication

  BMJ 2015; 351 :h6326 (Published 14 December 2015)

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