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Editorials

The clioepidemiology of pandemic influenza and next steps for pandemic influenza research in New Zealand

Nick Wilson, Michael G Baker, Lance C Jennings

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Painting a new picture for practice nurses in a capitated environment: who holds the brush?

Barbara Docherty, Nicolette Sheridan, Tim Kenealy

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Health in New Zealand—overview of Labour Party policy

The New Zealand Labour Party

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Original Articles

Rurality and pandemic influenza: geographic heterogeneity in the risks of infection and death in Kanagawa, Japan (1918–1919)

Hiroshi Nishiura, Gerardo Chowell

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Benchmarking home parenteral nutrition in Scotland and New Zealand: disparities revealed

Lyn Gillanders, Janet Baxter, Patrick Ball, Arend Merrie, Ruth F McKee

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Sociodemographic characteristics of New Zealand adult smokers, ex-smokers, and non-smokers: results from the 2006 Census

Sharon Ponniah, Ashley Bloomfield

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Low and declining cigarette smoking rates among doctors and nurses: 2006 New Zealand Census data

Richard Edwards, Tom Bowler, June Atkinson, Nick Wilson

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Review Articles

Has the prevalence and severity of symptoms of asthma changed among children in New Zealand? ISAAC Phase Three

M Innes Asher, Alistair W Stewart, Tadd Clayton, Julian Crane, Philippa Ellwood, Richard MacKay, Ed Mitchell, Chris Moyes, Philip K Pattemore, Neil Pearce

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Are antibiotics indicated as an initial treatment for patients with acute upper respiratory tract infections? A review

Bruce Arroll, Tim Kenealy, Karen Falloon

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Viewpoint

The development of CPR

Stuart McLennan

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Clinical Correspondence

Dyspnoea in a 17-year-old swim instructor: a diagnosis of hot tub lung

Tzu-Chieh Yu, Rashid Ahmed, Elaine Yap, Sunil Kumar

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Cryptogenic organising pneumonia in a 92 year old

Helen Kenealy, Geoffrey Green

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Medical image. A 14-year-old boy with left leg osteomyelitis and acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure

Navneet Singh, Gyanendra Agrawal

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Medical image. An incidental thoracic mass

Philip Finny, Jubbin J Jacob, Nihal Thomas

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Bertillon's Nomenclature of Disease and of Cause of Death (part 2)

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Measure the quality of healthcare spending

John Morton

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Netilmicin withdrawal: impact on neonates

Catherine M T Sherwin, Sofia Svahn, Roland S Broadbent, Antje Van Der Linden, Natalie J Medlicott, David M Reith

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A call to reduce harm from tobacco pack marketing and bolster consumer health protection in New Zealand

George Thomson, Nick Wilson, Janet Hoek

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Are practitioners of “alternative” therapies competent to practise medicine? Should the Medical Council take action?

James Davidson

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The use of deceit in health research

Kevin Dew

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Media hype surrounding the 'bullying of junior doctors' article—and author reply

Adelle Hanna, Joanne Scott, Chloe Blanshard, Stephen Child

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Moving beyond early detection of cancer—time to embrace the recommendations of the World Cancer Research Fund

Trevor Smith

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Obituary

Jenny Margaret Francis

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Notice

NZMJ Digest cover error

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