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Editorials

Hypertension and advice from natural health food stores

Jim Reid

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The next step: implementing the new transient ischaemic attack guidelines across health care sectors in New Zealand

Annemarei Ranta

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Original Articles

High blood pressure advice given by natural health food stores

Robert Siebers, Shaun Holt, Bridget Healy, Richard Beasley, Carl Burgess

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Party pills and drug-drug interactions

Meghan Murphy, Ushtana Antia, Hsin-Yao Chang, Jae Young Han, Abir Ibrahim, Malcolm Tingle, Bruce Russell

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Examining the first year of Medicines Use Review services provided by pharmacists in New Zealand: 2008

Evan Lee, Rhiannon Braund, June Tordoff

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A retrospective analysis of the use of C-reactive protein assays in the management of acute medical admissions

Andrew P Kelly, Aoife M Murphy, Ruth Hughes

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Cardiovascular treatment gaps: closing, but slowly

Vanessa Selak, Natasha Rafter, Varsha Parag, Andrew Tomlin, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Susan Dovey, Anthony Rodgers

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Review Article

Preventing strokes: the assessment and management of people with transient ischaemic attack

John Gommans, P Alan Barber, John Fink

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Viewpoint

Number-8-wire ethics: a New Zealand ethics committee’s response to lengthy international clinical trial information sheets

Martin Tolich, Jonas Hapuku

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Clinical Correspondence

AV conduction block and proximal myopathy induced by Gee’s cough linctus

Ben Griffiths, Lisa Willms, Sisira Jayathissa

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A successful outcome of prolonged resuscitation of cardiac arrest with pulseless electrical activity (PEA) due to severe hyperkalaemia

Uttam Nanda, Andrew Willis

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Medical image. A fulminant rash

Tom Jaconelli, Alex Psirides

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Medical image. Sinusitis and dyspnoea in a young man

Omer Uz, Namik Ozmen, Hakan Mutlu, Ejder Kardesoglu, Omer Yiginer, Mustafa Aparci, Zafer Isilak, Bekir Sitki Cebeci

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Some exploded theories and forgotten remedies in medicine: part 2 (treatment of the insane, typhus)

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 195th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 6 November 2008

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letter

What’s new in tobacco tax research for New Zealand and is it time for a tax hike now?

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

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Obituary

Alan Derek Fair

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Notice

Heart Foundation Grants Awarded March 2009

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