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Editorials

Increasing delivery of smoking cessation treatments to Māori and Pacific smokers

Marewa Glover, Nathan Cowie

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Smokefree parks in New Zealand: an important step towards the goal of a smokefree New Zealand in 2020

Ben Youdan

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Improving care for older people in residential care

Ngaire Kerse, Michal Boyd

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Original Articles

Few smokers in South Auckland access subsidised nicotine replacement therapy

Simon Thornley, Gary Jackson, Hayden McRobbie, Siniva Sinclair, James Smith

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Getting an outdoor smokefree policy: the case of Kapiti Coast District Council

Leigh Halkett, George Thomson

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A complex intervention to support ‘rest home’ care: a pilot study

Shankar Sankaran, Tim Kenealy, Allan Adair, Vivienne Adair, Heather Coster, Noeline Whitehead, Nicolette Sheridan, Matthew Parsons, Elaine Marshall, Leslie Bailey, Catherine Price, Dwayne Crombie, Harry Rea

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Pacific solutions to reducing smoking around Pacific children in New Zealand: a qualitative study of Pacific policymaker views

Tolotea Lanumata, George Thomson, Nick Wilson

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Characteristics and quitting success of roll-your-own versus tailor-made cigarette smokers

Judy Li, Michele Grigg, Deepa Weerasekera, Li-Chia Yeh

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Viewpoint

Government paralysis? Stable tobacco prices mean preventable deaths and disease persist, along with health inequalities in New Zealand

George Thomson, Des O’Dea, Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards

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Clinical Correspondence

Omental torsion: a rare cause of acute abdomen

Rohit Sarvepalli, Stephen M Kyle

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Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis in a Pacific island

Gilles Guierrier, Laurent Morisse

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Medical image. An unusual case of large bowel obstruction

Magdalena M Sakowska, Philip Bagshaw, Tim Eglinton

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Medical image. Carotid dissection presenting as Horner’s syndrome

Bander Dallol, Hala Alsafadi

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Special Series

The good apprentice in medical education

Dale Sheehan, Warwick Bagg, Wayne de Beer, Stephen Child, Wayne Hazell, Joy Rudland, Tim J Wilkinson

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Goitre in Fairlie

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Ciguatera poisoning: an increasing occurrence in New Zealand

Leo J Schep, Robin J Slaughter, Wayne A Temple, D Michael G Beasley

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Nicotine electronic cigarette sales are permitted under the Smokefree Environments Act

Murray Laugesen

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Kiwi support for the end of tobacco sales: New Zealand governments lag behind public support for advanced tobacco control policies

George Thomson, Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards

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Additional benefits (beyond the benefits to global health) of New Zealand health services adopting a carbon reduction strategy

Rebecca Randerson

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A survey of use and knowledge of vitamins and supplements in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Shaun Holt, Avrille Holt, Pieter Erasmus, Maryann Watson, Tony Farrell, Gareth Blackshaw, Mogens Poppe, Mike Williams, Andrew Gilbey

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The prevalence of lactose intolerance (adult hypolactasia) in a randomly selected New Zealand population

Jeff Upton, Peter George

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Obituaries

William Grattan O’Connell

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John Apthorp

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Upali Manukulasuriya

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Hugh Douglas

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Robert James Dallas

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Notice

Reviewers for the New Zealand Medical Journal in 2009

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Erratum

Medical student selection in New Zealand: looking to the future

NZMJ

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Book Review

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

Barbara Heslop

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