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Physicians waiting rooms contain mainly old magazines and researchers have found that it was because current magazines have a greater risk of being stolen than older ones, a new study reports. Also, they observed that gossip magazines (with celebrity photographs on the cover) were more likely to disappear than other types (Time magazine and The Economist).

Original research paper published in the British Medical Journal – Christmas issue on December 11, 2014.

Names and affiliations of selected authors

Bruce Arroll, University of Auckland, New Zealand