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Editorials

Volunteer cord blood banking and transplantation

Hilary Blacklock, Lochie Teague, Nigel Patton, Peter Browett

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Health expenditure and the ageing population

Frank Frizelle

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Original Articles

Bias measuring mortality gradients by occupational class in New Zealand

Tony Blakely, Jackie Fawcett

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Heart failure hospitalisations and deaths in New Zealand: patterns by deprivation and ethnicity

Tania Riddell

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Antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation: an assessment of compliance with guidelines

Anil Nair, Wayne Hazell, Timothy Sutton, Sandhya Pillai

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Avoiding and fixing medical errors in general practice: prevention strategies reported in the Linnaeus Collaboration’s Primary Care International Study of Medical Errors

Murray Tilyard, Susan Dovey, Katherine Hall

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Quality use of medicines activities in New Zealand hospitals from 2000 to 2002

June Tordoff, Pauline Norris, Julia Kennedy, David Reith

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New Zealand Rural General Practitioners 1999 Survey Part 4: analysis of specific sub-groups

Ron Janes, Donna Cormack, Anthony Dowell

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Accident and fatality characteristics in a population of mountain climbers in New Zealand

Erik Monasterio

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Review Article

A review of emerging flea-borne bacterial pathogens in New Zealand

Patrick Kelly, Sally Roberts, Pierre-Edouard Fournier

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Case Reports

Hyponatraemia, fever, vomiting, severe abdominal pain, and weight loss associated with omeprazole

Barry Colls, Oliver Menzies

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Infective endocarditis with abdominal pain: just a coincidence?

Calvin Ng, Ahmed Arifi, Song Wan, James Lau, Anthony Yim

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Viewpoints

Predictors of persistent acute postoperative pain: an opportunity for preventative medicine to reduce the burden of chronic pain

Edward Shipton

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Private umbilical cord blood banking: a biological insurance of dubious future benefit!

Michael Sullivan, Peter Browett, Nigel Patton

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Appendicitis: fifty consecutive and successful operations

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Medical Image

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (left ventricular apical ballooning)

Constantin Marcu, Dragos Balf, Thomas Donohue

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Regarding ‘Preventing diabetes—time is running out’; and Response

Don Matheson, Colin Feek, Robert Scragg

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The potential health benefits of protecting marine biodiversity

Nick Wilson, Cath Wallace, Barry Weeber

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Could exposure to methyl bromide cause motor neurone disease?

Ian Shaw

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Vitamin D deficiency and chronic autoimmune disease

Ronu Ghose

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Obituary

William James Smith

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Notices

Graham Aitken Nuffield Medical Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship

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New Zealand Evidence Based Practice Awards

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The Lloyd Morgan Lions Clubs Charitable Trust Fellowship Award

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Sport and Alcohol: Understanding the Mix (Conference)

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Grant announced for breast cancer drug resistance research project

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Book Reviews

Succeeding as a hospital doctor (2nd edition; Roger Kirby, Tony Mundy)

Angus Watson

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Electric universe: the true story of electricity (David Bodanis)

Randall Allardyce

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Osteoporosis: Fast Facts Series (4th edition; Juliet Compston, Clifford Rosen)

Nigel Gilchrist

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Headaches: Fast Facts Series (2nd edition; Richard Peatfield, David Dodick)

Deborah Mason

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Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine (2nd edition; Peter Cameron, George Jelinek, Anne-Maree Kelly, et al, eds)

Michael Ardagh

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Evidence-based oncology (Chris Williams, ed)

Mark Jeffery

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CD-ROM: Drug Identifier 2005—The premier drug identification tool

Evan Begg

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Herbs and Natural Supplements: An evidence-based guide (Lesley Braun, Marc Cohen)

Evan Begg

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Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery (24th edition; RCG Russell, Norman Williams, Christopher Bulstrode, eds).

Frank Frizelle

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