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UK healthcare workers are less likely to receive an honour than sportspeople, politicians, and those working in the arts, media or business, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.

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Psychiatrists most likely to speed while cardiologists most likely to drive luxury cars: study

Psychiatrists are most likely to be fined for extreme speeding, while cardiologists are most likely to drive luxury cars, according to a US study of physician driving behaviors in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.

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Sex in an MRI scanner—a look back at one of the most popular BMJ articles of all time

This Christmas marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of "Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal" in The BMJ.

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Engaging with the arts linked to longer life

Regular visits to museums, art galleries, the theatre or concerts is linked to a longer life, finds a study of older adults in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.

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Season of birth may be linked to risk of heart death

The time of the year you are born may be linked to your risk of dying from heart disease in later life, suggests a large US study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.

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Close to half of US population projected to have obesity by 2030

About half of the adult U.S. population will have obesity and about a quarter will have severe obesity by 2030, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Shigella strain resistant to all oral antibiotics circulating in Victoria

Researchers have reported an extremely drug-resistant strain of Shigella circulating in Victoria with the vast majority of cases occurring in men who have sex with men.

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Breakthrough science provides hope for lupus patients

Today the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) publishes research led by Monash University Professor Eric Morand that offers the first real hope for the treatment of lupus, a disease which affects 1.5 million people in the US and more than 5 million globally, 90% women and for which there is no cure.

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NASA's Mars 2020 rover completes its first drive

NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019, found that the rover checked all the necessary boxes as it rolled forward and backward and pirouetted in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The next time the Mars 2020 rover drives, it will be rolling over Martian soil.

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Researchers say may have found cause of mad cow disease

Researchers said Wednesday they believe they may have found the cause of mad cow disease, while stressing the need to maintain precautionary measures to avoid a potential re-emergence of the illness.

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Single-molecule detection of cancer markers brings liquid biopsy closer to clinic

A fast, inexpensive yet sensitive technique to detect cancer markers is bringing researchers closer to a "liquid biopsy"—a test using a small sample of blood or serum to detect cancer, rather than the invasive tissue sampling routinely used for diagnosis.