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Editorial

Sudden infant death and co-sleeping: stronger warning needed

Edwin A Mitchell

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Original Articles

Gender inequality in New Zealand life expectancy: decomposition by age and cause

Peter Sandiford

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Does mortality vary between Pacific groups in New Zealand? Estimating Samoan, Cook Island Māori, Tongan, and Niuean mortality rates using hierarchical Bayesian modelling

Tony Blakely, Ken Richardson, Jim Young, Paul Callister, Robert Didham

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Mum’s the word: factors that influenced young adults’ participation in the New Zealand Meningococcal B immunisation programme

Marian Bland, Geraldine M Clear, Adrianna Grogan, Kath Hoare, Jan Waldock

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Sero-prevalence of leptospirosis in workers at a New Zealand slaughterhouse

Jackie Benschop, Cord Heuer, Patricia Jaros, Julie Collins-Emerson, Anne Midwinter, Peter Wilson

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Acute gastrointestinal illness in New Zealand: information from a survey of community and hospital laboratories

Rob Lake, Nicola King, Kerry Sexton, Philippa Bridgewater, Donald Campbell

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Review Article

'Party pill' drugs—BZP and TFMPP

Ustana Antia, Malcolm D Tingle, Bruce R Russell

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Viewpoints

What is the mechanism of sudden infant deaths associated with co-sleeping?

Christine G McIntosh, Shirley L Tonkin, Alistair J Gunn

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Will the financial crisis get under the skin and affect our health? Learning from the past to predict the future

Tony Blakely, Melissa McLeod

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Climate science, denial and the Declaration of Delhi

George Laking, Alistair Woodward, Scott Metcalfe, Alexandra Macmillan, Graeme Lindsay, Joanna Santa Barbara, Anne MacLennan, Imogen Thompson, Susan Wells; for OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health

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Clinical Correspondence

Rectus sheath haematoma: an anticoagulation dilemma

Giovanni Losco, Samba Siva Reddy Pulusu, Murray Pfeifer

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Incarceration of an umbilical hernia following colonoscopy

Maxine M Beetham, M Imran Khan

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Medical image. Hypereosinophilic syndrome with lung involvement

Selim Doganay, Ali Yikilmaz, Guven Kahriman, Ibrahim Sacit Tuna, Abdülhakim Coskun

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Special Series

The quality of life of New Zealand doctors and medical students: what can be done to avoid burnout?

Marcus A Henning, Susan J Hawken, Andrew G Hill

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

President’s Address (part 4)

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Diabetes and tobacco

Don Beaven, Sarah Thomson

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Majority support by Māori and non-Māori smokers for many aspects of increased tobacco control regulation: national survey data

Richard Edwards, Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Deepa Weerasekera, Tony Blakely

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Protecting victims of domestic violence

Ian A Robertson

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Response to Narasimhan and Clausen's letter on heterophile antibodies and troponin results

Richard King, Christopher Florkowski, Richard Mackay, Peter George

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Rewriting the inverse care law

Roger Ridley-Smith

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Resource constraint is all the more reason to not let up on inequalities

Gary Jackson, Doone Winnard

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A survey of New Zealand patients’ preferred characteristics of their general practitioners

Shaun Holt, Andrew Gilbey

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Obituaries

Sir Donald Ward Beaven

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Dorothy Field Usher Potter

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Elsie Craig Gibbons

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Dorothy Barnard Kelly (née Smith)

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Mervyn Wilfrid Archdall

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John Stuart Boyd-Wilson

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Murray James Loughlin

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Notice

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Review

Clinical Management of Thyroid Disease (FE Wondisford, S Radovick; eds)

Birgit Dijkstra

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