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Editorials

Climate change: the health consequences of inactivity

Hugh Montgomery

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Where has carotid stenting gone?

Tim M Buckenham

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Original Articles

Teaching and learning in the hospital ward

Chrystal Jaye, Tony Egan, Kelby Smith-Han, Mark Thompson-Fawcett

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The training, experience, and confidence of junior doctors in performing pleural procedures

Conroy A Wong, Olivia Lee, Yvonne Kennedy, Helen Kenealy, Christopher Hood, Pathmanathan Sivakumaran, Y C Gary Lee

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Human papillomavirus knowledge and awareness among undergraduates in healthcare training in New Zealand

Carol Chelimo, Trecia A Wouldes

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Customised molecular diagnosis of primary immune deficiency disorders in New Zealand: an efficient strategy for a small developed country

Rohan Ameratunga, See-Tarn Woon

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Outcome and prognostic factors on 57 cases of infective endocarditis in a single centre

Chi Wing Wong, Graeme Porter, Jonathan Tisch, Calum Young

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Utilisation of inpatient cardiology services including by Māori: a study of hospital discharges for patients enrolled with Partnership Health practices for the 2 years ending June 2007

Laurence Malcolm, Ross Barnett

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Special Article

Why New Zealand must rapidly halve its greenhouse gas emissions

Scott Metcalfe, Alistair Woodward, Alexandra Macmillan, et al; for the New Zealand Climate and Health group

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Viewpoint

The power of apology

Marie M Bismark

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Clinical Correspondence

Swine H1N1 influenza in a post liver transplant patient

Ricardo Jurawan, Mary de Almeida, Anthony Smith, Frank Weilert

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Medical image. Combined surgery and repeated angioembolisation for a post-pancreatitis pseudoaneurysm

Mohamed Al Bashir, Abdullah Saleh, Ayman Saleh, Fikri M Abu-Zidan

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Medical image. A case of lumbodynia

Varun Dhir, Gautam D Chaudhary, Yogesh P Singh, Able Lawrence, Amita Aggarwal, Ramnath Misra

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

President's Address (part 1)

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

A design fault in New Zealand’s health research funding system exposed by pandemic influenza

Nick Wilson, Michael Baker, Lance Jennings, et al

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Comprehensive strategy towards delivering better communications and better health care to non-English speaking New Zealanders?

Sibylle Ferner, Henry Liu

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Tumbu and botflies: an underestimated nuisance for travellers in Africa and South America?

Brennan Edwardes

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Vaccinations (or lack of them) for student doctors

Lyn Goddard

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Go and see

Roger M Ridley-Smith

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Obituaries

Owen William Lee Dine

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William Copland Shirer

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Ronald Hamilton Hayward

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Erratum

Pacific Islands Families: Child and Parental Physical Activity and Body Size—design and methodology

NZMJ

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Book Reviews

Infection Control: a psychosocial approach to changing practice (Paul Elliott, editor)

Mona Schousboe

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A Physician In Spite of Himself (DW Carmalt Jones [autobiography]; Brian Barraclough, editor)

John Morton

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Medical Terminology Systems (6th edition; BA Gylys, ME Wedding)

Siraj Rajaratnam

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Evidence-Based Medicine for PDAs (Allan F Platt)

Richard Flint

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A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital (Linda Bryder)

MAH (Tony) Baird

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