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Editorials

Tobacco control in the Pacific

Don Matheson, Ashley Bloomfield, Debbie Ryan

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Economics can be good for health, but it needn’t be so dismal

Eric Crampton

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Original Articles

The risk of bronchiolitis hospitalisation following administration of a group B meningococcal vaccine in New Zealand

Paul Stehr-Green, Yvonne Galloway, Charlotte Kieft, Anne McNicholas

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Meningococcal B: tell me everything you know and everything you don’t know. New Zealanders’ decision-making regarding an immunisation programme

Paul B Watson, Judy Yarwood, Kim Chenery

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Evaluation of the Palliative Care Partnership: a New Zealand solution to the provision of integrated palliative care

Eileen McKinlay, Lynn McBain

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Review Articles

Tobacco smoking prevalence in Pacific Island countries and territories: a review

Kumanan Rasanathan, Colin F Tukuitonga

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Emerging modalities in dysphagia rehabilitation: neuromuscular electrical stimulation

Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Sebastian Doeltgen

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Case Reports

Nitrofurantoin-induced interstitial lung disease

Daniel Chou-yen Lin, Hasan Bhally

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Vacuum assisted closure devices in the elderly—a word of caution

Tejaswi Kandula, Justin A Roake, David R Lewis

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Viewpoint

Did Janet Frame have high-functioning autism?

Sarah Abrahamson

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Two cases of perforated gastric ulcer: operation—recovery (case 1)

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Medical Images

Transcatheter treatment of large coronary embolism

Suwatchai Pornratanarangsi, Peter N Ruygrok, Mark WI Webster

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Hepatic Wilson's disease

Guner Sonmez, Ersin Ozturk

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A case of ectasia

Onur Sildiroglu, Guner Sonmez, Cinar Basekim, Ersin Ozturk, Hakan Mutlu, Esref Kizilkaya

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Economics can be good for health: need for rational policy without the influence of vested interests

Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards, Osman Mansoor

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Tobacco smoking was dramatically reduced among New Zealand health care workers between 1963 and 1996, but what happened after that?

Derek R Smith, Peter A Leggat

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Media frenzy

Roger M Ridley-Smith

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Defining vitamin D deficiency

Mark J Bolland, Andrew Grey, Tim Cundy, Ian R Reid

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Obituaries

Alan Caselberg

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Geoffrey James Taine

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George Richard (Dick) Laurenson

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Book Reviews

Toxicology handbook (Lindsay Murray, Frank Daly, Mark Little, Mike Cadogan, editors)

Michael Beasley

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Joint and soft tissue injection (4th edition): injecting with confidence (Trevor Silver)

Lisa Stamp

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Oxford handbook of emergency medicine (3rd edition; Jonathan Wyatt, Robin Illingworth, Michael Clancy, Colin Robertson, Colin Graham)

Michael W Ardagh

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