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9 unusual facts about BMJ


BEEBUG

Professor Krisantha Weerasuriya of Sri Lanka's University of Colombo noted the user group and its magazine to be "very helpful" in a 1988 issue of the BMJ.

Duplicate publication

The BMJ requires copies of any previous work with more than 10% overlap of a submission before approving a work for publication.

Frederic William Henry Myers

In the British Medical Journal on November 9, 1895 an article was published titled Exit Eusapia!.

Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther

The youngest of the three brothers, Donald Ineson, obtained a first in natural science at Magdalen College, Oxford and became an associate editor at the BMJ.

Gordon Guyatt

In 2010, he was one of 10 candidates short-listed (from a list of 117 nominees) for the BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2007, the BMJ launched an international election for the most important contributions to healthcare.

John Brereton Barlow

When the paper was published in the British Medical Journal the international publicity highlighted the poor socio-economic conditions of the children living under the laws of apartheid, the South African government was critical of the study.

NuvaRing

A study in the BMJ, with over 1.6 million women, found that users of vaginal rings with ethinyl estradiol and etonogestrel have a 6.5 times increased risk of venous thrombosis compared to non-users.

Tickle torture

An article in the British Medical Journal about European tortures describes a method of tickle torture in which a goat was compelled to lick the victim's feet because they had been dipped in salt water.


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Andrzej Szczeklik

He is an author and co-author of about 600 papers published in the leading biomedical journals, including: "Nature", "Lancet", "NEJM", "JCI", "BMJ", "Blood", "Circulation", "JACI", etc.

Autistic enterocolitis

In an April 2010 investigation into the origins of claims for "autistic enterocolitis", reporter Brian Deer revealed in the BMJ that the original pathology results on the children in the study (obtained from the Royal Free hospital) had been subjected to wholesale changes, from normal to abnormal, in the medical school.

Packson Ngugi

In the mid 1990s, Ngugi joined actors like the late Joni Nderitu, Paul Onsongo and Ben Mutua Jonathan Muriithi (BMJ Muriithi), in holding demonstrations on the streets of Nairobi to protest the planned acquisition of Kenya National Theatre by the adjacent Norfolk Hotel, an action that made the Kenyan government rescind its decision.


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