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 colleaguesChristmas 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’sChristmas 2024: Dexterity assessment of hospital workers
Christmas 2024: Effect of heated mittens on physical hand function in people with hand osteoarthritis
Surgeons are quicker and more successful at completing a buzz wire game compared with other hospital staff, finds this study