This Issue in the Journal

A summary of the original articles featured in this issue of the NZMJ

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Editorials

Stroke services high priority, but neither coordinated nor timely

Tim Wilkinson, Richard Sainsbury

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Asthma in New Zealand - time to get control

Richard Beasley, Matt Masoli

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Original Articles

Stroke rehabilitation services in New Zealand

John Gommans, Alan Barber, Harry McNaughton, Carl Hanger, Patricia Bennett, David Spriggs, Jonathan Baskett

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Asthma morbidity, control and treatment in New Zealand: results of the Patient Outcomes Management Survey (POMS), 2001

Shaun Holt, Marjan Kljakovic, Jim Reid, for the POMS Steering Committee

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The epidemiology of colorectal cancer: what can we learn from the New Zealand Cancer Registry?

John Keating, Peter Pater, Simi Lolohea, Kesara Wickremesekera

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An audit of anaesthetic fresh-gas flow rates and volatile anaesthetic use in a teaching hospital

Ross Kennedy, Richard French

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Viewpoint

Controversies, new risk factors and the neuroendocrine approach to fibromyalgia: can therapeutic progress be made at last?

Edward Shipton

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Case Notes

Botulinum toxin as a preventive treatment for migraine and chronic tension headache

Teresa Cattin

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Primary hyperparathyroidism due to giant adenoma after treatment with radioactive iodine

Tanju Acar, Ismail Gomceli, Raci Aydin

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The physiological status of the large intestine

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting and Scientific Meeting of the Christchurch Medical Research Society, Wednesday 16 April 2003

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Medical Image

Acute right upper quadrant pain and anaemia

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letter

Death of pharmacy or safer dispensing?

Wayne McNee

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Obituaries

K V V Satyanarayana Murty

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Arthur James Ward (Bill)

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Notices

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine: Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health

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Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Review

Dedicated to diabetes: Diabetes New Zealand 1962–2002, Bee Dawson

Helen Lunt

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