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Editorials

Going from bad to worse?

Frank Frizelle

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Ethnicity, acculturation and health: who’s to judge?

Tony Blakely, Kevin Dew

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Original Articles

Illness beliefs and adherence in diabetes mellitus: a comparison between Tongan and European patients

Lucy Barnes, Rona Moss-Morris, Mele Kaufusi

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Pregnancy planning by mothers of Pacific infants recently delivered at Middlemore Hospital

Janis Paterson, Esther Tumama Cowley, Teuila Percival, Maynard Williams

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Regional variations in asthma hospitalisations among Maori and non-Maori

Lis Ellison-Loschmann, Ron King, Neil Pearce

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Motor vehicle traffic crashes involving Maori

Melanie Sargent, Dorothy Begg, John Broughton, Shaun Stephenson, Craig Wright, Joanne Baxter

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Representative case series from public hospital admissions 1998 I: drug and related therapeutic adverse events

Robin Briant, Wasan Ali, Roy Lay-Yee, Peter Davis

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White-tailed spider bites - arachnophobic fallout?

Jonathan Banks, Phil Sirvid, Cor Vink

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Case Reports

Gouty tenosynovitis - more common than we think?

David Townshend, Vasu Pai

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Thymoma and immunodeficiency

Michela Di Renzo, Anna Pasqui, Fulvio Bruni, Luca Voltolini, Paola Rottoli, Grazia Perali, Alberto Auteri

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

More lust for operation

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Medical Image

Bodypacker

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Buteyko pseudoscience

Shaun Holt, Richard Beasley

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The Green Prescription

Janet Copeland

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Chronic idiopathic singultus: is there life after cisapride?

Georg Petroianu

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Medicolegal

Medical discipline - professional misconduct

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Medical discipline - not guilty

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Medical discipline - charge struck out

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Obituary

Alister Douglas George Bowron

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Notice

The Hawke’s Bay Medical Research Foundation Inc: Medical Research and Study Grants

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Book Reviews

Multiple sclerosis: immunology, pathology, and pathophysiology, Robert M Henderson (ed)

John Fink

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Life on cripple creek: essays on living with multiple sclerosis, Dean Kramer

John Fink

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