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Editorials

In utero brain damage from alcohol: a preventable tragedy

Doug Sellman, Jennie Connor

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Hazardous drinking: not just an issue for the minority of drinkers

Simon J Adamson, J Elisabeth Wells

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Obesity and gestational diabetes mellitus: breaking the cycle

Sarah Bristow, Janet Rowan, Elaine Rush

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Original Articles

Maternal alcohol use before and during pregnancy among women in Taranaki, New Zealand

Reena Ho, Raimond Jacquemard

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Pregnancy following gastric bypass surgery: what is the expected course and outcome?

Nikhil Sapre, Karen Munting, Archana Pandita, Richard Stubbs

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Radiotherapy utilisation in lung cancer in New Zealand: disparities with optimal rates explained

Graham Stevens, Wendy Stevens, Sudha Purchuri, John Kolbe, Brian Cox

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Prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in the adult New Zealand population

Gordon Purdie, Andrew Harrison, Dianne Purdie

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The opinions of newly licensed drivers in New Zealand on the minimum car driver licensing age and reasons for getting a licence

Dorothy Begg, John Langley, Rebecca Brookland, Anna McDowell, Shanthi Ameratunga, John Broughton

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Clinical Correspondence

“Pigs might fly”—a case of Erysipelothrix endocarditis

Michael Addidle, Kate Grimwade, Stuart Tie, Hina Rahman, Richard Sorenson

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Get a handle on HaNDL (headache, neurological deficit, and lymphocytosis)

Harriet Cheng, Judy Huang, Joey Yeoh

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Medical image. Calcified facial haematoma

Patrick Mehanna, Anthony Bertram, Ian Wilson

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Medical image. An unexpected embolus revealed in transoesophageal echocardiogram

Michael Liang, Sumi Munthree, Raewyn Fisher, Gerard Devlin

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Special Series

Medical student selection in New Zealand: looking to the future

Phillippa J Poole, Helen J Moriarty, Andy M Wearn, Tim J Wilkinson, Jennifer M Weller

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

President’s Address (part 3)

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Research Seminar, Thursday 17 September 2009

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Proceedings of the 199th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 5 November 2009

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Obesity and mental disorders in the Māori population of New Zealand: the difficulties conducting culturally specific research

Amber Appleton

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Smoker misperceptions around tobacco: national survey data of particular relevance to protecting Māori health

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Deepa Weerasekera, Tony Blakely, Richard Edwards, Jo Peace, David Young, Heather Gifford

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Open access: science and undeveloped countries, a reality of discrimination

Walter Cardona-Maya

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Heterophile antibodies and troponin results: implications in rural setting

Seshasayee Narasimhan, Don Clausen

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Changes to health service delivery—successes and pitfalls

H Carl Hanger

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Auckland Community Laboratory contract: the most monumental disaster in health management in the past 60 years?

Ross N Howie

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Obituary

Ian Graham Robinson

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Notices

Heart Foundation Grants Awarded November 2009

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University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Scholarship in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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Erratum

Lee E, Braund R, Tordoff J. Examining the first year of Medicines Use Review services provided by pharmacists in New Zealand: 2008

NZMJ

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Book Reviews

Clinical Responsibility (Jane Lynch)

Rhian S Finn

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Caring for Hindu Patients (D Thakrar, R Das, A Sheikh, eds)

Sunil Kumar

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