Friday, December 20, 2024

A British Medical Journal Christmas - 2024

Today, some of the headlines from the current issue and next week some of our favorites from Christmases past.

From the BMJ:

Christmas 2024: How to transport a polar bear, and other idiosyncrasies for Arctic emergency medical services
Emergency helicopters in Norway’s northern Svalbard archipelago sometimes take unusual passengers, write Astrid K V Harring and colleagues 

Christmas 2024: Gang of four—when BMJ editors met

Christmas 2024: Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers
Taxi and ambulance drivers, whose jobs require frequent spatial and navigational processing, have the lowest levels of death attributed to Alzheimer’s  

Christmas 2024: Dexterity assessment of hospital workers
Surgeons are quicker and more successful at completing a buzz wire game compared with other hospital staff, finds this study

Christmas 2024: Effect of heated mittens on physical hand function in people with hand osteoarthritis