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Editorials

Tuberculosis in New Zealand: poverty casts a long shadow

Mark Thomas, Rod Ellis-Pegler

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HIV prevention in New Zealand—still room for improvement

Nigel Dickson, Oliver Davidson

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All change for the New Zealand laboratories

Ross Boswell, Andrew Tie

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Original Articles

Tuberculosis epidemiology in New Zealand: 1995–2004

Dilip Das, Michael Baker, Lester Calder

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Why the tuberculosis incidence rate is not falling in New Zealand

Dilip Das, Michael Baker, Kamalesh Venugopal, Susan McAllister

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An outbreak of Legionella pneumophila suspected to be associated with spa pools on display at a retail store in New Zealand

Quentin Ruscoe, Sarah Hill, Timothy Blackmore, Margot McLean

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An Auckland regional audit of the nurse-led rheumatic fever secondary prophylaxis programme

Sarah Grayson, Margaret Horsburgh, Diana Lennon

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Influenza immunisation rate for 2005 and factors associated with receiving this vaccine in patients aged 65 years and over admitted to a general medical ward at Auckland City Hospital

Elizabeth Curry, Nathan Kerr, Joseph Yang, Simon Briggs

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Special Article

Criteria for prioritising access to healthcare resources in New Zealand during an influenza pandemic or at other times of overwhelming demand

Michael Ardagh

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Case Report

Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy associated with minimal change nephrotic syndrome

Jen Li Looi, Jonathan Christiansen

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Viewpoint

Regulation of chicken contamination is urgently needed to control New Zealand’s serious campylobacteriosis epidemic

Michael Baker, Nick Wilson, Rosemary Ikram, Steve Chambers, Phil Shoemack, Gregory Cook

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Special Series

Quality improvement in New Zealand healthcare. Part 7: clinical governance—an attempt to bring quality into reality

Rod Perkins, Allan Pelkowitz, Mary Seddon, on behalf of EPIQ

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Golf as a preventive treatment for biliary colic

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Medical Image

Bilateral loin pain

Sujit Nair, Cherian George, Oliver Byass

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Alcohol excess may be overemphasised in gout treated in secondary care

Nicola Dalbeth, Peter Gow

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Regulations should ban the sale of cigarette pack covers of health warnings

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Louise Signal

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Policymakers’ ignorance of New Zealand Government investment in tobacco companies

Sheena Hudson, George Thomson, Nick Wilson

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Protecting the mental health of lawmakers in New Zealand

Nick Wilson, Sunny Collings

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The 'weighting' list

Roger Ridley-Smith

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Survey of the Network of Youth Health Service Providers (NYHSP): affiliated to New Zealand Association for Adolescent Health and Development (NZAAHD)

Sue Bagshaw

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‘Nil by mouth’ post gastrointestinal surgery—is there any evidence?

Akbar Ashrafi, Rosalynd Pochin

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Beta agonists and asthma

Patrick McHugh, Bruce Duncan

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Obituaries

Duncan Harry James Shine

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Warren John Richard Muirhead

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Book Review

Coming Off Antidepressants: how to use – and stop using – antidepressants safely (Joseph Glenmullen)

Roger Mulder

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