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Editorials

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

Jeffrey Garrett

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Adult cochlear implants in New Zealand—a chronic funding issue

Robert G Gunn

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Original Articles

Societal costs of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

Philippa H Gander, Guy Scott, Kara Mihaere, Helen Scott

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Exploring knowledge and attitudes of taxi drivers with regard to obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

Ridvan T Firestone, Philippa H Gander

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Improved speech discrimination after cochlear implantation in the Southern Cochlear Implant Adult Programme

Justine Bradley, Philip Bird, Penny Monteath, Elisabeth Wells

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Nasal fractures: patient satisfaction following closed reduction

Rachelle L Love

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Self-dilation for refractory oesophageal strictures: an Auckland City Hospital study

Kenneth K S Wong, Dagmar Hendel

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Viewpoint

Getting tangled in red tape: the challenges of doing clinical research in New Zealand

Sarah Loveday, Ed Mitchell

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Clinical Correspondence

MRI imaging of the inner ear for Meniere’s disease

Jeremy Hornibrook, Mark Coates, Tony Goh, Philip Bird

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Bilateral superior canal dehiscence syndrome

Jeremy Hornibrook, David O’Neill-Kerr, Latham Berry, Grant Carroll

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Inadvertent swallowing of toothbrush

Dinesh Lal

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Poland syndrome: rare presentation in two cases

Hayrettin Gocmen, Yücel Akkas, Selim Doganay

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Letters

Reassessing Cartwright—understanding the factual record

Phillida Bunkle

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A patient’s response to recent criticisms of the findings in the report of the Cervical Cancer Inquiry 1988

Clare Matheson

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A response to Dr Paul Patten

Charlotte Paul

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Comment on the book review of The Cartwright Papers in the NZMJ

Derek Dow

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A retrospective study: response to Dr McCredie

Linda Bryder

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A response to Ms Sandercock and Dr Burls regarding the methods used in the analysis for our first paper ‘Natural history of cervical neoplasia and risk of invasive cancer in women diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 3’

Margaret McCredie

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Intravenous antibiotics

Roger M Ridley-Smith

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Long-term benefit of increasing the prominence of a quitline number on cigarette packaging: 3 years of Quitline call data

Nick Wilson, Judy Li, Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards, Jo Peace

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Is New Zealand lagging behind other OECD countries in measures to reduce alcohol-related harm?

Fiona Imlach Gunasekara, Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The Annual Meeting at Auckland. The President's Address

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 203rd Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 15 July 2010

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituaries

Randal Forbes Elliott

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Desmond Denis O'Sullivan

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James (Jim) Ainslie Begg

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John Joseph Horan

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Book Reviews

Cases in Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Medicine (Daniel Ellis, Matthew Hooper)

Paul Gee

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Functional Histology (2nd edition; Jeffrey B Kerr)

Andrew Miller

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Enhancing Patient Care: a practical guide to improving quality and safety in hospitals (Alan Wolff, Sally Taylor)

John Morton

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