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Editorials

Elderly access to medical care: should age be a factor in deciding management?

Joel Yap, Leo Anthony Celi

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Global warming and possums: contributors in the future to new mosquito-borne human diseases in New Zealand?

Edwin R Nye

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Original Articles

Cancer mortality by occupation among New Zealand women: 1988–1997

Hilda Firth, Andrew Gray, Lucy M Carpenter, Brian Cox

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Women with breast cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand: the effect of urban versus rural residence on stage at diagnosis and survival

Hayley Bennett, Roger Marshall, Ian Campbell, Ross Lawrenson

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Hyperplastic polyposis in the New Zealand population: a condition associated with increased colorectal cancer risk and European ancestry

Andrew Yeoman, Joanne Young, Julie Arnold, Jeremy Jass, Susan Parry

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The influence of hospital environment on postoperative length of stay following major colorectal surgery

Ryash Vather, Kamran Zargar-Shoshtari, Patricia Metcalf, Andrew G Hill

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Mosquitoes feeding on brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) and humans in a native forest fragment in the Auckland region of New Zealand

José G B Derraik, Weihong Ji, David Slaney

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Review Article

Human papilloma virus vaccines and their role in cancer prevention

Ronald W Jones, Edward P Coughlan, J Stewart Reid, Peter Sykes, Peter D Watson, Catherine Cook

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Viewpoint

Cervical screening legislation is unethical and has the potential to be counter-productive

Katharine Wallis

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Clinical Correspondence

A case of late-onset severe cardiotoxicity from 5-fluorouracil therapy resulting in death

Namal Wijesinghe

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Leiomyosarcoma of the scrotum—a rare tumour

Kheman Rajkomar, Ian Mundy

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Solitary subcutaneous metastatic deposit from hepatocellular carcinoma

Yazan A Masannat, Rajgopal Achuthan, Kailas Munot, William Merchant, Jim Meaney, Michael J McMahon, Kieran Horgan

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Letters

Tobacco-free countries: Could Pacific Island countries lead the way?

Nick Wilson, Ron Borland, Richard Edwards, Matt Allen, Colin Tukuitonga

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A follow-up to the management of acute biliary disease at a major New Zealand metropolitan hospital

Magdalena Sakowska, Munanga Mwandila, Saxon Connor, Philip Bagshaw

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Randomised controlled trial to meta-analysis ratio: a reply from a group producing systematic reviews

Robert Weir, Susan Bidwell,

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Hand washing

Ben Gray

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Division of doctors into classes: an idea to discourage the public visiting chemists, herbalists, or quacks

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Proceedings

Proceedings of Free Papers and Posters from New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology combined with NZGNO, RACP, and IMSANZ AGM & Scientific Meeting, Wednesday 21–Friday 23 November 2007

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Proceedings of the New Zealand Rheumatology Conference, Thursday 30 August–Sunday 2 September 2007

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Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Research Seminar, Wednesday 12 September 2007

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Medical Images

Traumatic crepitus

Blanca Obón-Azuara, Isabel Gutiérrez-Cía, Pilar Luque-Gómez, Carmen Velilla-Soriano

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Mediastinal enlargement

Bulent Karaman, Ersin Ozturk, Guner Sonmez, Hakan Mutlu, C Cinar Basekim, Esref Kizilkaya

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituary

Colin James Alexander

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Notices

National Heart Foundation Grants Awarded November 2007

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National Heart Foundation: 2008 Grant Applications

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National Heart Foundation: 2008 Senior Fellowship

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Book Reviews

Penn Clinical Manual of Urology (P Hanno, AJ Wein, B Malkowicz)

Stephen Mark

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Otoacoustic Emissions: Clinical Applications (Third Edition; MS Robinette, TJ Glattke)

Sarah Eddie

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Clinical Sports Medicine (Third Edition; P Brukner, K Khan)

Frank A Frizelle

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