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Editorial

Men and health

Stephen Neville

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Original Articles

Doctoring New Zealand’s gay men

Jeffery Adams, Tim McCreanor, Virginia Braun

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A 12-year review of gunshot injuries: Auckland City Hospital experience

Li Hsee, Ian Civil

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Management of low-velocity, non-gunshot-wound penetrating abdominal injury: have we moved with the times?

Li Hsee, Ian Civil

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Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP)—a new surgical treatment for cancer of the prostate

Liam C Wilson, Joanna Pickford, Peter J Gilling

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A prospective study analysing the effect of pain on probe insertion, and the biopsy strategy, on the patients’ perception of pain during TRUS-guided biopsy of the prostate

Samarth Chopra, Edward W J Rowe, Marc Laniado, Anup Patel

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Who goes to a sexual health clinic? Gender differences in service utilisation

Jane Morgan, Jarrod Haar

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Declining sperm quality in New Zealand over 20 years

Rebecca Shine, John Peek, Mary Birdsall

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Review Article

PSA testing and DRE, TRUS scanning with sector biopsy, improved histology, curative treatments, and active surveillance for prostate cancer: a success story for men’s health

Robin Smart

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Viewpoint

Men’s health and the health of the nation

Lannes Johnson, Peter Huggard, Felicity Goodyear-Smith

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Clinical Correspondence

Hypocalcaemia and hypomagnesaemia: a complication of Crohn’s disease

Andrew P Kelly, Belinda J Robb, Richard B Gearry

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MYH-associated polyposis—a new familial colorectal cancer syndrome without a family history

Graeme Dickson, Ian Wilson, Julie Arnold, Susan Parry

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Medical image. Splenic infarction secondary to subacute infective endocarditis

Amer A Alkhatib, Fateh A Elkhatib

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Medical image. Lung metastases in adenocarcinoma

Emily Duncan, Lutz Beckert

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The Medical Profession and the Friendly Societies

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

A mechanism of reduced sperm count—exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals

Ian Shaw, Sally Gaw, Lisa Graham

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Greater regulation of complementary medicine therapists needed

Jon Wardle

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Anson and anaesthesia

Basil R Hutchinson

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“One ticket to town and just letting you know I have syphilis.” Time to replace the Health Act 1956?

Nick Wilson, Michael Baker, Caroline Shaw

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Obituaries

Geoffrey Howard Herd

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Norman Walter Nisbet

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Notices

National Heart Foundation: 2009 Grant Applications

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National Heart Foundation: 2009 Senior Fellowship

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Maori Cardiovascular Research Fellowship

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Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Review

Gastroenterology and Hepatology: A Clinical Handbook (NJ Talley, I Segal, MD Weltman)

Catherine Stedman

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