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As the festive season approaches, amidst COVID-19 restrictions, we harken back to the glory days of the Christmas single. For decades, the biggest names in popular music (as well as some unlikely contributors) have sought to cheer us up in the middle of winter whilst augmenting their personal bank accounts.
Christmas Wrapping
The Waitresses, a new wave band from Akron Ohio, released their Christmas single “Christmas Wrapping” in 1982. The band’s lead singer Patty Donahue delivered a cynical, alternative take on the Christmas season. Waitresses often rely on tips to maintain a decent wage and TIP/S is the subject of a paper in this month’s Thorax by Heirali and colleagues (see page 1058). The TIP/S in question stand for tobramycin inhalation powder / solution, used in cystic fibrosis as a chronic suppressive therapy for pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The Thorax paper addresses the “off target” effects of TIP/S on the sputum microbiome. The authors analysed 151 sputum samples from 41 …
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