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Editorials

Hip fractures: a deadly and silent epidemic

Jean-Claude Theis

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Older people and after hours care

Ngaire Kerse, Martin Connolly

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Original Articles

After hours healthcare for older patients in New Zealand

Anne Eastwood, Anthony Dowell

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Audit of morbidity and mortality following neck of femur fracture using the POSSUM scoring system

William Young, Richard Seigne, Shona Bright, Marysha Gardner

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Nocturia in adults: draft New Zealand guidelines for its assessment and management in primary care

Mark Weatherall, Ted Arnold

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Surgical inclination in senior medical students from the University of Auckland: results of the 2005 Senior Students Survey

Phillip Insull, Ritwik Kejriwal, Anand Segar, Phil Blyth

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Current and former smoking increases mortality in patients on peritoneal dialysis

Geoffrey Braatvedt, Bronwyn Rosie, Warwick Bagg, John Collins

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Māori have a much higher incidence of community-acquired pneumonia and pneumococcal pneumonia than non-Māori: findings from two New Zealand hospitals

Stephen Chambers, Richard Laing, David Murdoch, Christopher Frampton, Lance Jennings, Noel Karalus, Graham Mills, Ian Town

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Case Reports

Portal venous thrombophlebitis in a case of perforated appendicitis: lessons from a case

Renukadas Sakalkale, Paul Reeve

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Neurophysiological findings in a case of cervical anterior spinal artery syndrome: compound muscle action potentials, a marker for prognosis

Ming Lu, Dexuan Kang, Dongsheng Fan

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Special Series

New Zealand cancer patients should have access to erythropoietin treatment

John Carter, Jennifer Clay

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Odds and ends of a year’s surgery. An unusual cause of death after the operation for the radical cure of inguinal hernia

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 182nd meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 18 May 2006

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Medical Image

Colon obstruction

Chi-Lun Tsai, Khee-Siang Chan, Che-Kim Tan

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Regarding New Zealand Medical Association’s position on the minimum purchase age for alcohol—and NZMA response

John Langley, Kypros Kypri, Ross Boswell

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In defence of Ayurvedic medicine—and response by authors of the paper on lead poisoning

Hugh David Lovell-Smith, Johan van Schalkwyk, James Davidson, Barry Palmer

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Buteyko breathing technique and asthma in children: a case series

Patrick McHugh, Bruce Duncan, Frank Houghton

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine / Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2007

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