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	Christmas 2025: Words and meanings: How recent is recent? Retrospective analysis of suspiciously timeless citations
	Alejandro Díez-Vidal, Jose R Arribas
	BMJ  2025;391:e086941, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086941 (Published 11 December 2025) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web extra]

	Christmas 2025:: Changes in diversity language in National Institutes of Health grant awards: observational study
	Neil Mehta, Anupam B Jena
	BMJ  2025;391:e087222, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-087222 (Published 11 December 2025) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web extra]

Clinical Review

	State of the Art Review: Antimicrobial use and resistance
	Nada Reza, Vineet Dubey, Michael Sharland, William Hope
	BMJ  2025;391:e082681, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-082681 (Published 12 December 2025) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Masks and flu: What is the debate, and should you wear one?
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2025;391:r2631, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2631 (Published 12 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Puberty blockers trial faces potential legal action from campaigners
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2025;391:r2629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2629 (Published 12 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ministers seek power to control NHS drug approvals to support US pharma deal
	Elisabeth Mahase
	BMJ  2025;391:r2622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2622 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Flu: Hospital admissions surge as NHS faces "worst case scenario"
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2025;391:r2620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2620 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Strike deal: Streeting makes last minute offer to avert pre-Christmas industrial action
	Elisabeth Mahase
	BMJ  2025;391:r2614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2614 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Antidepressant deprescribing: Slow tapering plus therapy is best way to come off medication, say researchers
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2025;391:r2608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2608 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Strikes: BMA is urged to drop advice on not giving employers notice of walkouts as flu pressures mount
	Gareth Iacobucci
	BMJ  2025;391:r2611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2611 (Published 10 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	News Analysis: Why is this year’s flu season so bad, and should you get the vaccine?
	Chris Baraniuk
	BMJ  2025;391:r2602, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2602 (Published 10 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drone strikes kill 114 in Sudan hospital and kindergarten, as Russia hits Ukraine maternity ward
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2025;391:r2599, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2599 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS maternity care "much worse than anticipated," review lead warns
	Elisabeth Mahase
	BMJ  2025;391:r2601, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2601 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Child mortality to rise for the first time this century, Gates report warns
	Luke Taylor
	BMJ  2025;391:r2597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2597 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS Fife trans changing room row: Nurse wins partial victory
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2025;391:r2596, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2596 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Early warning system for maternity care is launched in England
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2025;391:r2593, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2593 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Editor's Choice

	Five pennies for your thoughts, Mr Streeting
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2025;391:r2626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2626 (Published 12 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

	Christmas 2025: Black Mirror: Science of longevity medicine
	Madhvi Joshi, Shonella Singh, Nikita Rowley
	BMJ  2025;391:r2536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2536 (Published 12 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK asylum proposals harm health and human rights
	Yamina Boukari, Amy Jane Stevens, Susanna Corona, Delan Devakumar
	BMJ  2025;391:r2585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2585 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Healthcare solutions for people with multiple long term conditions
	Kamlesh Khunti,, Frances S Mair,, Prabhakaran Dorairaj,, Jonathan Valabhji,
	BMJ  2025;391:r2563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2563 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Arms industry and health: Health professionals must speak out against the arms industry
	Assad Malik
	BMJ  2025;391:r2583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2583 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Christmas 2025: Black Mirror: Parallel pressures: the common roots of doctor bullshit and large language model hallucinations
	Roberto A Correa Soto, Liam G McCoy, Camilo Perdomo-Luna, Jennifer Ziegler, Luis Eduardo Pino, Andrés Rico, Valentina Velasco-Muñoz, Adelaida Uribe-Castaño, Adam Rodman, Leo Anthony Celi
	BMJ  2025;391:r2570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2570 (Published 12 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2025: Black Mirror: Reclaiming human care from surveillance capitalism
	Victor Montori, V, J P Montori, Victor M Montori
	BMJ  2025;391:r2459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2459 (Published 12 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2025: AI chatbots and the loneliness crisis
	Susan C Shelmerdine, Matthew M Nour
	BMJ  2025;391:r2509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2509 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interview: "It’s now bordering on malpractice to care for a patient without using AI"—Tom Frieden on resetting prevention, primary care, and US mistakes in covid
	Mun-Keat Looi
	BMJ  2025;391:r2533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2533 (Published 10 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Domestic Abuse: Why doctors are uniquely vulnerable to domestic abuse
	Adele Waters
	BMJ  2025;391:r2575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2575 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Public health lessons in equity for the United Kingdom’s gonorrhoea vaccine launch
	Jack Haywood, Benjamin Weil, Will Nutland, John McSorley
	BMJ  2025;391:e086660, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086660 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	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) [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Grieve
	David Spooner, Murray Brunt, Clive Irwin, Chris Baughan
	BMJ  2025;391:r2564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2564 (Published 12 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text]

	Marjory Florence Foyle
	Malcolm Fraser
	BMJ  2025;391:r2561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2561 (Published 11 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Arthur Wall
	Andrew Wall
	BMJ  2025;391:r2565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2565 (Published 10 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text]

	Pauline Ann Manfield
	Jane Briggs
	BMJ  2025;391:r2566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2566 (Published 9 December 2025) [Extract] [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction: Ionising radiation and cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis
	BMJ  2025;391:r2557, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2557 (Published 12 December 2025) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Redressing inequities in women’s cardiovascular health
	BMJ  2025;391:r2617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2617 (Published 11 December 2025) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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