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Editorials

Obesity in New Zealand children: a weighty issue

Rachael W Taylor

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Strong forces at work on our senior doctors in New Zealand

Ian Powell

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Original Articles

Paediatric liver transplantation in New Zealand: the first 5 years

Justin Wilde, Simon Chin, Peter Johnston, John McCall, Stephen Munn, Chris Nixon, Alison Wesley, Yatin Young, Helen M Evans

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Unplanned overnight hospital admission after strabismus surgery

Mark Elder, David Steven, Spencer Beasley, David Wium

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Five-year experience of corneal scrapes at Wellington Eye Department, New Zealand

Kunaal Rajpal, Reece Hall, Helen Long, Anthony Wells

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The Auckland City Hospital Device Point Prevalence Survey 2005: utilisation and infectious complications of intravascular and urinary devices

Stephen Ritchie, Deborah Jowitt, Sally Roberts, on behalf of the Auckland District Health Board Infection Control Service

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An outbreak of infectious syphilis in Wellington, New Zealand

Ruth Cunningham, Jane MacDonald, Margot McLean, Caroline Shaw

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Case Reports

Vibrator-induced fatal rectal perforation

Naseem G Waraich, James S Hudson, Syed Y Iftikhar

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Gallbladder perforation in a patient on steroid therapy

Syed Imran H Andrabi, Jawad Ahmad, Munir A Rathore, Ahmed A S El-Hakeem

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Viewpoint

The challenge of paediatric obesity: more rhetoric than action

Bevan C Grant, Stan Bassin

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

BMA membership issues

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Medical Image

An unusual cause of shoulder pain: self-assessment questions

Bhavuk Garg, Vijay Sharma, Shah Alam Khan, Rajesh Malhotra

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

PHARMAC responds on Herceptin assumptions and decisions

Scott Metcalfe, Jackie Evans

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A tough market

Roger M Ridley-Smith

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Cervical cancer prevention, feminism, and Herb Green

Ronald W Jones

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Obituaries

Daniel Grant Johnston

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Ross Gordon

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Notice

Heart Foundation Grants Awarded July 2007

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Book Reviews

Essential cardiac catheterization (Rob Butler, Mark Gunning, James Nolan)

Victor Chen

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Clinical cases in emergency medicine: a physiological approach (Justin Walls, Geoffrey Couser, Hanni Gennat, David Johns)

David Richards

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