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	Christmas 2012: Yesterday's World: Placebos in 19th century medicine: a quantitative analysis of the BMJ
	Jacqueline E Raicek, Bradley H Stone, Ted J Kaptchuk
	BMJ  2012;345:e8326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8326 (Published 18 December 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Presentation of continuous outcomes in randomised trials: an observational study
	David L Schriger, Dan F Savage, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2012;345:e8486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8486 (Published 18 December 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2012: Research: Nutritional content of supermarket ready meals and recipes by television chefs in the United Kingdom: cross sectional study
	Simon Howard, Jean Adams, Martin White
	BMJ  2012;345:e7607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7607 (Published 17 December 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Research: Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis: diagnostic accuracy study
	Helen F Ashdown, Nigel D’Souza, Diallah Karim, Richard J Stevens, Andrew Huang, Anthony Harnden
	BMJ  2012;345:e8012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8012 (Published 17 December 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2012: Research: Why Rudolph’s nose is red: observational study
	Can Ince, Anne-Marije van Kuijen, Dan M J Milstein, Koray Yürük, Lars P Folkow, Wytske J Fokkens, Arnoldus S Blix
	BMJ  2012;345:e8311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8311 (Published 17 December 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of non-benzodiazepine hypnotics in treatment of adult insomnia: meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration
	Tania B Huedo-Medina, Irving Kirsch, Jo Middlemass, Markos Klonizakis, A Niroshan Siriwardena
	BMJ  2012;345:e8343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8343 (Published 17 December 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra][extra: Data supplement]

News

	Boy must have surgery despite wishes of his mother, court rules
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2012;345:e8622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8622 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patient survival rates for individual surgeons will be published from 2013
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2012;345:e8617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8617 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Six polio vaccination workers are shot dead in Pakistan
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2012;345:e8609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8609 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New drug for type 2 diabetes is no better than older, cheaper treatments, says institute
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2012;345:e8593, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8593 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Commissioning board looks for funding formula that will reduce health inequalities
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2012;345:e8615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8615 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors may face mandatory reporting of adverse incidents involving implants
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2012;345:e8614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8614 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Universities will have to report adverse events in research to higher education funding body, consultation proposes
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;345:e8604, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8604 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Many pain clinics fail to offer multidisciplinary care, says audit
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2012;345:e8577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8577 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Retain clinical excellence awards, but cap sum and number of recipients, says DDRB
	Helen Jaques
	BMJ  2012;345:e8585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8585 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Group is set up to look at seven day working in the NHS
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2012;345:e8601, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8601 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fight against malaria slowed in 2012 as funding fell
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2012;345:e8569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8569 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England will pilot cancer patient survey to compare hospitals
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2012;345:e8506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8506 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Presence of HPV in later life may represent reactivation, not reinfection
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2012;345:e8517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8517 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Reward doctors for early diagnosis of dementia, says think tank
	Krishna Chinthapalli
	BMJ  2012;345:e8533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8533 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Appointments later in week are less likely to be missed, finds study
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2012;345:e8534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8534 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Filipino parliament votes to improve access to contraception
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2012;345:e8535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8535 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs call for evidence on clinical trials and data disclosure
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2012;345:e8537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8537 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Local authorities’ scrutiny committees must consider financial issues if they want to reject health service changes
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;345:e8543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8543 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Army doctor was dishonest about injuries to detained Iraqi, finds tribunal
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2012;345:e8550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8550 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Australia aims to eliminate female genital mutilation
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2012;345:e8553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8553 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Indian government promises paediatric formulations of TB drugs
	Mohuya Chaudhuri
	BMJ  2012;345:e8563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8563 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Postoperative deaths from bowel cancer fall for fourth year in row, audit shows
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2012;345:e8518, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8518 (Published 16 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs call for Commons committee to examine cost to NHS of missing data
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2012;345:e8515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8515 (Published 14 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Regulator’s role in decision by ombudsman not to look into baby’s death is to be investigated
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2012;345:e8524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8524 (Published 14 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Editor's Choice

	The view from space
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2012;345:e8605, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8605 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

	Christmas 2012: Editorial: When managers rule
	Brian Jarman
	BMJ  2012;345:e8239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8239 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The challenge of preventing spree killings
	John H M Crichton
	BMJ  2012;345:e8603, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8603 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Editorial: Dirty, deluded, and dangerous
	Gary L French
	BMJ  2012;345:e8330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8330 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Christmas 2012: Yesterday's World: Barbara Hepworth’s hospital drawings
	Richard Cork
	BMJ  2012;345:e8529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8529 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thoughts for Today: Learning from the abolitionists, the first social movement
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2012;345:e8301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8301 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Lives of Doctors: Doctors on television: analysis of doctors’ experiences during filming of a documentary in the workplace
	Shelby Webster, Kevin Shotliff, Urvashi Sharma, Derek Bell
	BMJ  2012;345:e8220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8220 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Evolution of Practice: Push, pull, squeeze, clamp: 100 years of changes in the management of the third stage of labour as described by Ten Teachers
	Nasreen Aflaifel, Andrew Weeks
	BMJ  2012;345:e8270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8270 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2012: Evolution of Practice: Gastroscopic painting
	James Rose
	BMJ  2012;345:e8323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8323 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2012: Tomorrow's World: Case report of E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial
	Gregory Scott, Edward Presswood
	BMJ  2012;345:e8127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8127 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Evolution of Practice: Bringing surgical history to life
	Roger Kneebone, Abigail Woods
	BMJ  2012;345:e8135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8135 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Lives of Doctors: Is it time for an evidence based uniform for doctors?
	Rhys Clement
	BMJ  2012;345:e8286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8286 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Thoughts for Today: Using speed of ageing and "microlives" to communicate the effects of lifetime habits and environment
	David Spiegelhalter
	BMJ  2012;345:e8223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8223 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2012: Yesterday's World: Revisiting the harem conspiracy and death of Ramesses III: anthropological, forensic, radiological, and genetic study
	Zahi Hawass, Somaia Ismail, Ashraf Selim, Sahar N Saleem, Dina Fathalla, Sally Wasef, Ahmed Z Gad, Rama Saad, Suzan Fares, Hany Amer, Paul Gostner, Yehia Z Gad, Carsten M Pusch, Albert R Zink
	BMJ  2012;345:e8268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8268 (Published 17 December 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Yesterday's World: John Collins Warren (1778-1856): An American surgeon in London
	David K C Cooper
	BMJ  2012;345:e8251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8251 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra][extra: Web Extra]

	Christmas 2012: Research: Building a metaphor: Another brick in the wall?
	Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2012;345:e8302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8302 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Yesterday's World: Surgical thimbles
	William H Isbister
	BMJ  2012;345:e8447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8447 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Yesterday's World: Toilet hygiene in the classical era
	Philippe Charlier, Luc Brun, Clarisse Prêtre, Isabelle Huynh-Charlier
	BMJ  2012;345:e8287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8287 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Thoughts for Today: All in this together: the corporate capture of public health
	Jennifer S Mindell, Lucy Reynolds, David L Cohen, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2012;345:e8082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8082 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2012: Sport: What football teaches us about researching complex health interventions
	Alexander M Clark, Thomas G Briffa, Lorraine Thirsk, Lis Neubeck, Julie Redfern
	BMJ  2012;345:e8316, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8316 (Published 16 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Body Politic: You can’t mandate compassion
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;345:e8509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8509 (Published 18 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Tobacco harm reduction: the devil is in the deployment
	Gerard Hastings, Marisa de Andrade, Crawford Moodie
	BMJ  2012;345:e8412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8412 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

	Personal View: Dengue fever is massively under-reported in India, hampering our response
	Manish Kakkar
	BMJ  2012;345:e8574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8574 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Polio eradication was an ideological project
	William Muraskin
	BMJ  2012;345:e8545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8545 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review: Has Ritalin replaced the rod?
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2012;345:e8532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8532 (Published 19 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View: Educational interventions are unlikely to work because obese people aren't unhappy enough to lose weight
	Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos
	BMJ  2012;345:e8487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8487 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: Talented oldsters
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2012;345:e8459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8459 (Published 14 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

	Statistical Question: Zelen’s design
	Philip Sedgwick, Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2012;345:e8505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8505 (Published 14 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Christmas 2012: Yesterday's World: An early British case of neuromyelitis optica (1850)
	Sven Jarius, Brigitte Wildemann
	BMJ  2012;345:e6430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6430 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Scott’s parabola and the rise and fall of metal-on-metal hip replacements
	David Hamilton, Colin Howie, Paul Gaston, Hamish Simpson
	BMJ  2012;345:e8306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8306 (Published 17 December 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Exercise induced pyomyositis
	BMJ  2012;345:e8516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8516 (Published 18 December 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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