Too many Christmas parties for Twitter? Here is our festive summary of what you might have missed.
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- Seven alternatives to evidence-based medicine #XmasBMJ.
- Freewheelin’ scientists: citations of Dylan in biomedical literature #XmasBMJ.
- The epidemiology and pathology of zombie infections #XmasBMJ.
- The death of a proverb. You can actually polish a turd #XmasBMJ.
- The origins of the Christmas cracker.
- A classic Health Service Journal Christmas front cover. Unfortunately the ‘deficit star’ is unlikely to have a fatal weakness that can be exploited by the heroism of one individual.
- The most covered Christmas songs ever.
- The scientific breakthroughs of 2015. You read about most of them in last week in health on Twitter
- A fair few of these will be consumed over Christmas. A world league table of sugary drink consumption.
- For anyone worried about their diet over Christmas, in Italy pasta and biscotti are food groups.
And finally…
- The twelve things of an NHS Christmas:
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