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Editorials

Acting upstream to control the obesity epidemic in New Zealand

Nick Wilson, Carolyn Watts, Louise Signal, George Thomson

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Leadership at night in New Zealand hospitals

Mike Hunter

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Original Articles

New Zealand's Christchurch Hospital at night: an audit of medical activity from 2230 to 0800 hours

John Morton, Yvonne Williams, Mike Philpott

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Representative case series from New Zealand public hospital admissions in 1998—III: adverse events and death

Robin Briant, John Buchanan, Roy Lay-Yee, Peter Davis

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Treating claudication in 5 words (stop smoking and keep walking) is no longer enough: an audit of risk factor management in patients prescribed exercise therapy in New Zealand

Nadine Kuiper, Malcolm Gordon, Justin Roake, David Lewis

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Management of risk factors: a survey of New Zealand vascular surgeons

Heidi Su, Malcolm Gordon, Justin Roake, David Lewis

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An analysis of referees and referrals to a specialist concussion clinic in New Zealand

Deborah Snell, Lois Surgenor

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Appropriate use of pagers in a New Zealand tertiary hospital

Rajesh Patel, Keryn Reilly, Andrew Old, Gill Naden, Stephen Child

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Frequency of calls to “on-call” house officer pagers at Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand

Tin Chiu, Andrew Old, Gill Naden, Stephen Child

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Ethnicity data and primary care in New Zealand: lessons from the Health Utilisation Research Alliance (HURA) study

Health Utilisation Research Alliance (HURA)

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Case Reports

Cutaneous larva migrans (hookworm) acquired in Christchurch, New Zealand

Laurens Manning, Stephen Chambers, Graeme Paltridge, Paul Maurice

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A “fishy” cough: hepatobronchial fistula due to a pyogenic liver abscess

Fouad Moawad, Alex Truesdell, Brian Mulhall

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Special Series

PHARMAC and treatment of bipolar depression—the limits of utilitarianism

Pete Ellis, Roger Mulder, Richard Porter

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Note on unskilled massage and quack rubbing

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Canterbury Health Research Conference, 26–27 August 2005

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Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Research Seminar, Thursday 1 September 2005

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Medical Image

An unusual cause of abdominal pain

Sagar Nigwekar

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letter

Tobacco industry fears of the World Conference of Tobacco or Health

George Thomson

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Obituaries

Peter Grahame Snow

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Harman Gilbert Smith

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