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Changes in hospital financial performance and quality of care after real estate investment trust acquisition: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study
Joseph Dov Bruch, Tarun Ramesh, Eric Boyang Yu, Jie Zheng, Jessica Phelan, E John Orav, Thomas C Tsai
BMJ  2025;391:e086226, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086226 (Published 18 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Shifting perspectives: Acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health in England: population based retrospective cohort study
Melanie A de Lange, Kate Birnie, Rebecca C Richmond, Chin Yang Shapland, Sophie V Eastwood, Kate Tilling, Neil M Davies
BMJ  2025;391:e085962, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-085962 (Published 17 December 2025)
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State of the Art Review: Medical management of inflammatory bowel diseases
Jana G Hashash, Jimmy K Limdi, Jason M Shapiro, Samir A Shah
BMJ  2025;391:e079050, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-079050 (Published 19 December 2025)
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"Unacceptable" waits and lack of safety data at adult gender clinics in England, review finds
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;391:r2667, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2667 (Published 19 December 2025)
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Resident doctors in Wales agree new contract with pay rise and improved study leave
Elisabeth Mahase
BMJ  2025;391:r2666, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2666 (Published 19 December 2025)
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Winter strikes: Flu numbers "aren’t matching the rhetoric" from ministers says resident doctors’ chief
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2025;391:r2665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2665 (Published 19 December 2025)
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French anaesthetist who poisoned 30, killing 12, is jailed for life
Barbara Casassus
BMJ  2025;391:r2664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2664 (Published 19 December 2025)
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News Analysis: "This is why the trial is necessary": experts behind the puberty blockers study respond to mounting opposition
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2025;391:r2660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2660 (Published 18 December 2025)
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Flu: Antiviral treatments need more evidence, researchers say, as winter surge continues
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2025;391:r2659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2659 (Published 18 December 2025)
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Strike: Resident doctors begin latest walkout as BMA is accused of hypocrisy over staff pay
Elisabeth Mahase, Stephanie Santos Paulo, George Webster
BMJ  2025;391:r2656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2656 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Exclusive: Flu: Extra jabs ordered by wholesalers as UK demand for vaccines soars
Chris Baraniuk
BMJ  2025;391:r2652, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2652 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Australia’s social media ban comes into force despite clinicians’ concerns
Bianca Nogrady
BMJ  2025;391:r2651, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2651 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Racism in maternity care: Ministers reject mandatory cultural competency training for midwives
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2025;391:r2650, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2650 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Exclusive: Eight in 10 trusts are caring for emergency department patients in corridors, BMJ investigation finds
Sophie Borland
BMJ  2025;391:r2636, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2636 (Published 16 December 2025)
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UN declaration on non-communicable diseases is passed despite Robert F Kennedy Jr objections
Jacqui Thornton
BMJ  2025;391:r2647, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2647 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Saturated fat: Reducing intake has benefits, but only in those at high risk, study reports
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2025;391:r2642, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2642 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Patients face "dangerous" waits in hospitals because of discharge delays, leaders warn
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2025;391:r2641, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2641 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Good news from 2025
BMJ  2025;391:r2607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2607 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Resident doctors vote to go ahead with pre-Christmas strike after rejecting Streeting’s offer
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2025;391:r2639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2639 (Published 15 December 2025)
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Doctors expect roles to change amid major workforce shift, says landmark Scottish report
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2025;391:r2637, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2637 (Published 15 December 2025)
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US-Kenya health agreement suspended over patient data concerns
Frank Burkybile
BMJ  2025;391:r2634, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2634 (Published 15 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Goodbye to the year of the Big Lie; hello, reverse centaur
Kamran Abbasi
BMJ  2025;391:r2643, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2643 (Published 18 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: The BMJ’s medics’ revue: a revival in 2026
Helen Macdonald, Kamran Abbasi
BMJ  2025;391:r2619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2619 (Published 18 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: The Rest is Also Medicine: Repudiation of global south debt to meet human need
Farwa Sial, Jason Hickel, Ndongo Samba Sylla
BMJ  2025;391:r3249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r3249 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: The Rest is Also Medicine: Advancing migration policy requires intersectoral collaboration
Kolitha Wickramage, Fatima Wurie, Dominik Zenner, Sally Hargreaves
BMJ  2025;391:r2515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2515 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Medical misogyny: Informed choice and patient involvement are key to improving experiences of gynaecological procedures
Stephanie O’Donohue
BMJ  2025;391:r2630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2630 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: The Rest is Also Medicine: Mosaic mural helps GPs and patients put pieces back together after covid
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2025;391:r2461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2461 (Published 18 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Death Rattles: In memoriam: a tribute to some of the doctors who died in 2025
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2025;391:r2488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2488 (Published 18 December 2025)
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1: 2: Christmas 2025: Black Mirror: What does a doctor look like? Asking AI
Sati Heer-Stavert
BMJ  2025;391:e088968, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-088968 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Lost in Words: Where medicine meets melody—Lullaby Hour brings harmony to the neonatal ICU
Anna Caldwell
BMJ  2025;391:r2587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2587 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Trust Me. I'm a Doctor?: What is society doing to young doctors?
Iona Heath, Sergio Minue
BMJ  2025;391:r2448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2448 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Citation Millionaire: New Year’s resolutions to push you past Doug Altman’s 1 060 928 citations
Jonathan J Deeks, Gary S Collins
BMJ  2025;391:r2550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2550 (Published 17 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Agreeable Disagreement: Explaining the facts before us: the challenge of causal inference
Alex Broadbent
BMJ  2025;391:r2615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2615 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Agreeable Disagreement: Causal inference is hard, and advanced statistical analysis is not enough
Timothy Feeney, Paul N Zivich
BMJ  2025;391:r2618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2618 (Published 16 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: Black Mirror: How the BNF has grown in size and weight over decades
Jamie Hayes, Steven D Williams, Paul Gimson, Mark Taubert
BMJ  2025;391:r2574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2574 (Published 16 December 2025)
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The BMJ Annual Appeal: The BMJ appeal 2025-26: Inside MSF’s response to cholera in Nigeria: a day in the life of an emergency doctor
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2025;391:r2612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2612 (Published 15 December 2025)
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Christmas 2025: The Rest is Also Medicine: Misogyny and manuscripts
Zoë McElhinney
BMJ  2025;391:r2600, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2600 (Published 15 December 2025)
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Len Doyal: medical ethicist who enjoyed robust debate and set up one of the NHS’s first clinical ethics committees
Lesley Doyal
BMJ  2025;391:r2649, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2649 (Published 18 December 2025)
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Terence English: extravagant and uncompromising surgeon who performed the UK’s first successful heart transplant
John Illman
BMJ  2025;391:r2604, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2604 (Published 15 December 2025)
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