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Editorials

New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme and health: wasting our opportunities

Jamie Hosking, Jennie Connor, Scott Metcalfe, George Laking, Andrea Forde, Rochelle Phipps; for OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health

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Jeffrey M Drazen, Martin B Van Der Weyden, Paush Sahni, Jacob Rosenberg, Ana Marusic, Christine Laine, Sheldon Kotzin, Richard Horton, Paul C Hébert, Charlotte Haug, Fiona Godlee, Frank A Frizelle, Peter W de Leeuw, Catherine D DeAngelis

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Original Articles

Monitoring the performance of New Zealand's National Cervical Screening Programme through data linkage

Hazel Lewis, Li-Chia Yeh, Bobby Almendral, Harold Neal

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Waiting times for gynaecological cancer surgery

Heidi Y Su, Peter H Sykes

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Travelling surgeons: a clinical audit of laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedures in Northland, New Zealand

Shaun M Ryan, Peter Milsom, Joseph Yang, Gerrie Snyman

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Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy for neurological disorders

Catriona Harkins, Graeme Hammond-Tooke, James Faed

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Temporal lobe resection for refractory temporal lobe epilepsy at Auckland Hospital

Ravi Suppiah, Edward Mee, Elizabeth B Walker, Lynair Roberts, Gregory Finucane, Peter S Bergin

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Review Article

The use of computed tomography in the detection and characterisation of large bowel obstruction

Edmund M Godfrey, Helen C Addley, Ashley S Shaw

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Viewpoint

Coenzyme Q10; an adjunctive therapy for congestive heart failure?

Sarah L Molyneux, Christopher M Florkowski, A Mark Richards, Michael Lever, Joanna M Young, Peter M George

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Clinical Correspondence

Induced sputum or bronchoscopy in the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis?

Andy Shute, Lutz Beckert

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Medical image. Duodenal transposition for superior mesenteric artery syndrome in a child

Dylan Wanaguru, Philip Hammond, David Davies-Payne, James Hamill

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Medical image. Recurrent muscle cramps in chronic diarrhoea

Pazhanivel Mohan, Jayanthi Venkataraman

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

President's Address (part 2)

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Alternative diagnosis in clinically suspected cases of measles

Deborah Williamson, Rao Sirikonda, Hanna Antoszewska, Margaret C Croxson

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The importance of tobacco prices to roll-your-own (RYO) smokers (national survey data): higher tax needed on RYO

Nick Wilson, David Young, Deepa Weerasekera, Richard Edwards, George Thomson, Marewa Glover

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A physicist’s view of the climate change crisis: delighted with the attention given to this important issue

George Preddey

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An engineer's view of the climate change crisis: the earth is now actually in a cooling phase

Peter J Morgan

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Climate change is almost totally nature-driven

Kevin Campbell

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Swearing as a non-prescription drug

José G B Derraik

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Sign On—prescribing for climate health

Rochelle Phipps, Alexandra Macmillan, Osman Mansoor, Graeme Lindsay, Scott Metcalfe, Rhys Jones; for OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health

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Obituary

John Lewis Adams

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Book Reviews

Role Play and Clinical Communication: learning the game (John Skelton)

Phillipa Malpas

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Creating Effective Conference Abstracts and Posters in Biomedicine: 500 tips for success (J Fraser, L Fuller, G Hutber)

Tim Eglinton

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