Friday, December 30, 2005

Christmas CMAJ and BMJ

Both these journals publish rather off beat articles in their Christmas issues.

CMAJ this Christmas considers "refrigerator blindness", where sufferers cannot see items of food that are in the fridge, and need to have help, and also a novel way of removing earwax with a water pistol. There is also a systematic review of nodding and napping in lectures, which builds on a paper published last year, and which has some rather pointed things to say about medical publishing and citation. The contents list for this issue of CMAJ is at
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/vol173/issue12/.

The UK press seemed to pick up on several things in the Christmas BMJ, although I wonder if they realise the nature of the Christmas BMJ. Anyhow, the Christmas BMJ considers disappearing teaspoons, the impact of Harry Potter books on traumatic injuries in children, interventions for hangover, and depictions of substance abuse in reality television. Contents page at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol331/issue7531/?etoc.

Happy holidays!

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