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Editorials

Invisible care: do we need a Code of Rights to protect family and informal carers?

Harry Rea, Tim Kenealy, Nicolette Sheridan, Des Gorman

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Geriatric medicine is becoming the core of hospital business

Matthew Croucher

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Original Articles

The New Zealand informal caregivers and their unmet needs

Diane Jorgensen, Matthew Parsons, Stephen Jacobs, Hilary Arksey

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How well is cognitive function documented by medical staff in the over-65 age group at the time of acute medical admission?

Joanne Rodwell, Valerie Fletcher, Ruth Hughes

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Professional development perceptions and activities of psychiatrists and mental health nurses in New Zealand

Nikolaos Kazantzis, Sarah J Calvert, David E Orlinsky, Sally Rooke, Kevin Ronan, Paul Merrick

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Smoking cessation education increases interventions in a New Zealand hospital: World No Tobacco Day revisited

Stephen Vega, Iwona Stolarek

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Viewpoints

Health care policy and community pharmacy: implications for the New Zealand primary health care sector

Shane Scahill, Jeff Harrison, Peter Carswell, John Shaw

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New Zealand’s drug development industry—strengths and opportunities

Michelle M Lockhart, Zaheer U-D Babar, Sanjay Garg

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Clinical Correspondence

Misuse of over-the-counter codeine-containing analgesics: dependence and other adverse effects

Geoffrey M Robinson, Sophie Robinson, Patrick McCarthy, Christina Cameron

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Group A streptococcal toxic shock syndrome from a traumatic myositis

Sum Sum Lo, Anubhav Mittal, Ian Stewart

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Medical image. Stuck in the stoma: an unusual cause of small bowel obstruction seen on abdominal computed tomography

Giovanni Losco, Brett Lyons

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Cancer research

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Living with motor neurone disease

David Yates

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We don’t need a pilot bowel cancer screening programme: please just get on with it!

Guy Hingston

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Queen Mary Hospital at Hanmer Springs

Roger M Ridley-Smith

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Growth-promoting hormones are not used in the New Zealand poultry industry

Michael Brooks; for the Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand

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High and increased support by Māori and non-Māori smokers for a ban on point-of-sale tobacco displays: national survey data

Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards, George Thomson, Deepa Weerasekera, Heather Gifford, Janet Hoek

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Obituary

Barrie Russell Jones

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2011

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