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Editorials

Psychotropic medications for elders in residential care

Matthew Croucher

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Giant cell arteritis: a medical emergency

Helen V Danesh-Meyer

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Dare to struggle, dare to win (incrementally)

Ian Powell

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Original Articles

Use of psychotropic medicines in residential care facilities for older people in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

Marilyn Tucker, Ian Hosford

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Rehabilitation after stroke: changes between 2002 and 2007 in services provided by district health boards in New Zealand

John Gommans, P Alan Barber, H Carl Hanger, Patricia Bennett

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Outpatient follow-up for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in relation to New Zealand Rheumatology Association guidelines at Dunedin Hospital

Georgina Chan, Fern Goh, Timothy Hodgson, Erica Hsu, Deborah Johnstone, Jasen Ly, Timothy Platt, Edrich Rodrigues, Wendy Tsai, Phil Hider, Andrew Gray, John Highton

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Best practice for assessment of patients with varicose veins

Emma Horrocks, Justin Roake, David Lewis

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Iron status and risk-profiling for deficiency in New Zealand blood donors

Krishna G Badami, Kate Taylor

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Trends in population drug use in New Zealand: findings from national household surveying of drug use in 1998, 2001, 2003, and 2006

Chris Wilkins, Paul Sweetsur

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Special Article

The Bequest Programme at the University of Otago: cadavers donated for clinical anatomy teaching

Kathryn McClea

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Viewpoint

Debunking the myths to provide 21st Century management of gout

Doone Winnard, Tony Kake, Peter Gow, Caran Barratt-Boyes, Victoria Harris, Devi-Ann Hall, Henare Mason, Tony Merriman, Nicola Dalbeth; for The Maaori Gout Action Group in Counties Manukau District Health Board

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Clinical Correspondence

Toxic epidermal necrolysis after paroxetine treatment

Rashid Ahmed, Carl Eagleton

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An atypical presentation of giant cell arteritis

Anmar M A Rahman

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Medical image. Visual impairment in an elderly man

Biju Jose, Sharmistha Roy Chowdhury, George I Varughese, David M Barton

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Medical image. Abdominal distension

Ersin Ozturk, Guner Sonmez

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

A case of caesarean section

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 192nd Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 15 May 2008

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letter

Majority of smokers and non-smokers in favour of smokefree parks in New Zealand

Ann-Marie Stevenson, Rachel Bradshaw, Jared Cook, Rachel Cunningham, Leonie Riddick, Rory Miller, Richard Edwards, Nick Wilson, George Thomson

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Obituaries

John Philip Andrew

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Vettivetpillai Tharmapalan

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Geoffrey Martin Wallace

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Ronald Ernest Tingey

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Notices

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2009

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National Heart Foundation: 2008 Grant Applications

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Medical Benevolent Fund

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