The health benefits of watching Dr. Who? BMJ's Christmas issue has arrived!

Every year the BMJ publishes a Christmas issue with light-hearted articles. This year's issue has arrived complete with articles on Barbie, Dr. Who, AI Christmas cards, and more!  

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077143

Wellcome Displays Art that Shares the Pain of Migraine

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BMJ 2023; 380:p544. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p544 (Published 07 March 2023):

Between 1980 and 1987 the British Migraine Association ran four art competitions to share impressions from across the world of people’s experience of migraine.

Competitors were asked to express the pain created by the condition, using any material and any medium, including crayon, charcoal, oils, and watercolour. Most of the participants had no artistic background.

The competition attracted 545 unique, often striking works of art that are now being curated before being displayed by the Wellcome Collection later this year. As a prelude to a full exhibition, Wellcome has published a selection online, with notes from Rada Vlatkovic, the collection’s information officer, who explains the history of the competition and reflects on her own experience of migraine.

 

Learn more at The Migraine Art Competition - Wellcome Collection

Time for tea

It's time for the BMJ Christmas issue!  This year, my favorite article is an extremely rigorous examination of the optimal temperature of tea and which biscuit to best accompany it.

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