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	Christmas 2013: Research: The Brady Bunch? New evidence for nominative determinism in patients’ health: retrospective, population based cohort study
	John J Keaney, John D Groarke, Zita Galvin, Catherine McGorrian, Hugh A McCann, Declan Sugrue, Edward Keelan, Joseph Galvin, Gavin Blake, Niall G Mahon, James O’Neill
	BMJ  2013;347:f6627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6627 (Published 12 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2013: Research: Were James Bond’s drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor?
	Graham Johnson, Indra Neil Guha, Patrick Davies
	BMJ  2013;347:f7255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7255 (Published 12 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra][extra: Web Extra][extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2013: Food For Thought: Laughter and MIRTH (Methodical Investigation of Risibility, Therapeutic and Harmful): narrative synthesis
	R E Ferner, J K Aronson
	BMJ  2013;347:f7274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7274 (Published 12 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra][extra: Web Extra][extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2013: Research: Morphology and size of stem cells from mouse and whale: observational study
	Martin J Hoogduijn, Johanna C van den Beukel, Lidewij C M Wiersma, Jooske Ijzer
	BMJ  2013;347:f6833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6833 (Published 12 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Duration of symptoms of respiratory tract infections in children: systematic review
	Matthew Thompson, Talley A Vodicka, Peter S Blair, David I Buckley, Carl Heneghan, Alastair D Hay, on behalf of the TARGET Programme Team
	BMJ  2013;347:f7027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7027 (Published 11 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Red flags to screen for malignancy and fracture in patients with low back pain: systematic review
	Aron Downie, Christopher M Williams, Nicholas Henschke, Mark J Hancock, Raymond W J G Ostelo, Henrica C W de Vet, Petra Macaskill, Les Irwig, Maurits W van Tulder, Bart W Koes, Christopher G Maher
	BMJ  2013;347:f7095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7095 (Published 11 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Evaluation of pre-hospital administration of adrenaline (epinephrine) by emergency medical services for patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: controlled propensity matched retrospective cohort study
	Shinji Nakahara, Jun Tomio, Hideto Takahashi, Masao Ichikawa, Masamichi Nishida, Naoto Morimura, Tetsuya Sakamoto
	BMJ  2013;347:f6829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6829 (Published 10 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

Practice

	10-Minute Consultation: Tremor
	Menelaos Pipis, Mohammad Dehabadi, Emma Matthews, Lawrence Gould
	BMJ  2013;347:f7200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7200 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Intravenous fluid therapy for adults in hospital: summary of NICE guidance
	Smita Padhi, Ian Bullock, Lilian Li, Mike Stroud, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2013;347:f7073, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7073 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Slowdown in production of treated bed nets damages fight against malaria
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2013;347:f7475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7475 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US outlines plan to reduce use of antimicrobials in food production
	Michael McCarthy
	BMJ  2013;347:f7477, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7477 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	A third of general practices in England’s first wave of inspections failed on essential standards
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2013;347:f7462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7462 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Local government is given help to prioritise public health schemes
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2013;347:f7469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7469 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Families are warned they can’t decide treatment for incapacitated relatives
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7436 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	More doctors are raising concerns with GMC about colleagues, MPs hear
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2013;347:f7457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7457 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeon is suspended because of concerns over eight "avoidable" deaths
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7461 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2013;347:f7424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7424 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Ketamine should be upgraded from class C to class B drug, committee says
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2013;347:f7439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7439 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Hospital trusts will have to cut activity when integration fund comes into effect, meeting is told
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2013;347:f7434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7434 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Regulatory authority reviews GMC decisions in Mid Staffordshire cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7397 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	UK doctors’ regulator strikes off GP for persistent dishonesty
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7414 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Patients are at risk because doctors don’t know how much IV fluid they need, NICE says
	Ingrid Torjesen
	BMJ  2013;347:f7396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7396 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

Editor's Choice

	Don’t keep taking the tablets
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2013;347:f7438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7438 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

	Red flags for back pain
	Martin Underwood, Rachelle Buchbinder
	BMJ  2013;347:f7432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7432 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Adrenaline for out of hospital cardiac arrest?
	Theresa Mariero Olasveengen
	BMJ  2013;347:f7268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7268 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sodium in drugs and hypertension
	Pasquale Strazzullo
	BMJ  2013;347:f7321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7321 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Restoring invisible and abandoned trials: Who is responsible for publishing the results of old trials?
	Alvaro Sanz Rubiales
	BMJ  2013;347:f7199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7199 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Christmas 2013: Medical Histories: "Compulsive plague! pain without end!" How Richard Wagner played out his migraine in the opera Siegfried
	Carl H Göbel, Anna Göbel, Hartmut Göbel
	BMJ  2013;347:f6952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6952 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2013: Medical Histories: From the Ottomans to the present day: 150 years of Scottish medical charity in the Holy Land
	Peter D Turnpenny
	BMJ  2013;347:f6994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6994 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Data Briefing: How big is the US healthcare lobby?
	Edward Davies
	BMJ  2013;347:f7366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7366 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2013: Aggravations: Tied up in science: unknotting an old anaesthetic problem
	Clemens R M Barends, Anthony R Absalom
	BMJ  2013;347:f6735, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6735 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2013: Food for Thought: A unified model of patient safety (or "Who froze my cheese?")
	Enrico Coiera, Sarah Collins, Craig Kuziemsky
	BMJ  2013;347:f7273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7273 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Welcome to the most exclusive club in the NHS
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2013;347:f7318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7318 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Humanitarian Disasters: Syria: a healthcare system on the brink of collapse
	Keir Stone-Brown
	BMJ  2013;347:f7375, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7375 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Christmas Appeal 2013: Who cares for the nine million displaced people of Syria?
	Richard Hurley
	BMJ  2013;347:f7374, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7374 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Open Data: Rosiglitazone: a case of regulatory hubris
	Steven E Nissen
	BMJ  2013;347:f7428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7428 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Confidential: Parveen Kumar: Pet hate is arrogance
	BMJ  2013;347:f7367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7367 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

	From the Frontline: What is the point of doctors?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2013;347:f7380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7380 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: A fat chance of slimming
	Robin Ferner
	BMJ  2013;347:f7389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7389 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Bakhtawar Shah Khattak
	Fatima Khattak
	BMJ  2013;347:f6891, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6891 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Albert Edward Thompson
	Kevin G Burnand
	BMJ  2013;347:f7453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7453 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text]

	Arthur Maxwell House
	Barbara Kermode Scott
	BMJ  2013;347:f7188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7188 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text]

Minerva

	A pear shaped bladder
	Babajide Olusola Olubaniyi, Tharsi Sarvananthan, Geoffrey Price
	BMJ  2013;347:f7301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7301 (Published 11 December 2013) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The benefits of mild hypothermia and other stories . . .
	BMJ  2013;347:f7310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7310 (Published 11 December 2013) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Christmas 2013: Research: Die another day
	Stuart Carter, Fiona Fawthrop
	BMJ  2013;347:f6973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6973 (Published 12 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Determinants of the decline in mortality from acute myocardial infarction in England between 2002 and 2010: linked national database study
	BMJ  2013;347:f7379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7379 (Published 10 December 2013) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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