Highly recommended reading at this time of year is BMJ's Christmas issue. This year is no exception with some great tongue-in-cheek research studies on such topics as the survival time of chocolates in hospital wards, whether it is better to be right than happy, and the hypothesis that James Bond's drinks may have been shaken due to alcohol tremor. Perhaps more serious is "Following celebrities' medical advice: meta-narrative analysis", which assesses how celebrities can be a useful force for health promotion in newspapers and magazines, but they can also provide poor information which is too readily taken up by some people.BMJ, 21 Dec 2013 (Vol 347, Issue 7938). Many articles are open access and others can be accessed via CIAP for NSW Health employees.
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