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Editorial

Managing venous insufficiency

Manar Khashram, David R Lewis

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Original Articles

Venous ulcer management in New Zealand: usual care versus guideline recommendations

Andrew Jull, Natalie Walker, Varsha Parag, Peter Molan and Anthony Rodgers; on behalf of the Honey as Adjuvant Leg Ulcer Therapy (HALT) trial collaborators

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Topical negative pressure wound therapy (TNPWT): current practice in New Zealand

Jacqui Laney, Justin Roake, David R Lewis

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Screening for diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, and cardiovascular risk in primary care: a Northland, New Zealand pilot study

Bronwyn White, Nick Chamberlain

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Management of adult superficial acute abscesses in a tertiary hospital: time for incisive action

Jannah Baker, John Windsor

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Review Article

Honey in the treatment of burns: a systematic review and meta-analysis of its efficacy

Meme Wijesinghe, Mark Weatherall, Kyle Perrin, Richard Beasley

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Viewpoint

Who do you want to treat your varicose veins?

David R Lewis

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Clinical Correspondence

Blue fingers and lips on an acute medical take

Syed Raza, Asis Kumar

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Acute exercise-induced compartment syndrome of the leg: an Auckland series

Phillip Insull, Simon W Young

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Medical image. A case of Kommerell

Wan-Hsiu Liao, Sheng-Hsiang Lin, Tsu-Tuan Wu

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Medical image. Battle's sign

Hossein Sanaei-Zadeh, Kamran Aghakhani

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Some exploded theories and forgotten remedies in medicine: part 4 (epilepsy)

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 197th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 14 May 2009

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Delays in the lung cancer pathway in South Auckland—and author response

Stuart Barnard, Jai-deep Sood, Conroy Wong, Robert Bevan, Andrew Veale, Pathmanathan Sivakumaran

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National Immunisation Register inaccuracies and duplications: Ministry of Health response

David Wansbrough, Rachel Guthrie

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A freely available software tool for assessing aspects of pandemic influenza risk reduction for small islands

Markus Schwehm, Martin Eichner, Nick Wilson, Michael G Baker

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Beliefs about homeopathy among patients presenting at GP surgeries

Shaun Holt, Andrew Gilbey

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Obituary

Margaret Fraser Gatman

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Book Reviews

The Facts: Head Injury (A Dainsley, R Tams, U Kischka)

Nicholas D M Finnis

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Micronutrients: Metabolic Tuning - Prevention - Therapy (Uwe Gröber)

Clarice Hebblethwaite

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The Merck Manual of Patient Symptoms: a concise, practical guide to etiology, evaluation, and treatment (Robert S Porter, ed)

Jenny Chieng, David Jardine

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