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Editorials

National food supply: a major opportunity to improve population health

Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Carlene Lawes

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Private surgical fees in New Zealand

Roger Bowie

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Original Articles

Decreased red meat fat consumption in New Zealand: 1995–2002

Murray Laugesen

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Dollars and Sense. Is there a better way to determine private surgical fees in New Zealand?

Paul Brown, John Windsor, Michael Law

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Admissions to acute psychiatric inpatient services in Auckland, New Zealand: a demographic and diagnostic review

Amanda Wheeler, Elizabeth Robinson, Gail Robinson

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Prevalence of human pathogens in cat and dog fleas in New Zealand

Patrick Kelly, Jean-Marc Rolain, Didier Raoult

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Increased risk of cardiovascular events with parecoxib/valdecoxib: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sarah Aldington, Philippa Shirtcliffe, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley

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Case Reports

Thalassaemia and pregnancy

James Harraway

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Primary retroperitoneal seminoma presenting with inferior vena caval obstruction

Amit Patel, Liam Wilson, Abhay Rane

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Special Series

PHARMAC not funding some treatments for rare, life-threatening diseases: bosentan as an example

Ken Whyte

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Was the schoolmaster abroad?

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Medical Image

Lung heart bypass

Suwatchai Pornratanarangsi, Seifeddin El-Jack, Christopher Occleshaw, Mark Webster, Timothy Sutton, Peter Ruygrok

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Screening for Ministerial appointments? Systems failure in Peter Dunne’s appointment as a New Zealand Revenue and Associate Health Minister

George Thomson, Nick Wilson

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Nurse practitioner (NP) prescribing in New Zealand: a NP’s response to the editorial by Drs Moller and Begg—including a response by the editorial authors

Paula Renouf, Peter Moller, Evan Begg

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More on nurse practitioner prescribing in New Zealand: the view and experience of an epilepsy nurse specialist who worked in the United Kingdom

Patricia Hosking

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Response to editorial—‘Teaching imaging to medical students: strategies and expectations’

Rathan Subramaniam

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Response to the 'woman bites dog' article on domestic violence

Felicity Goodyear-Smith

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Obituary

Shelagh Staniland

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Notices

Heart Foundation Grants Awarded November 2005

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National Heart Foundation: 2006 Grant Applications

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