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Editorial

Higher rate of empyema disease in Māori and Pacific children

Brendon Bowkett

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Original Articles

Better be prepared than sorry: what should the New Zealand healthcare system learn from the 2009 Pacific Tsunami?

Sultan Al-Shaqsi

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Communicable and non-communicable diseases in the Solomon Islands villages during recovery from a massive earthquake in April 2007

Takuro Furusawa, Hana Furusawa, Ricky Eddie, Makiva Tuni, Freda Pitakaka, Shankar Aswani

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Yaws in Polynesia’s Wallis and Futuna Islands: a seroprevalence survey

Gilles Guerrier, Sandrine Marcon, Laure Garnotel, Roger Deltour, Stéphane Schinas, Jean Pierre Mathelin, Chantal Chouvin, Olivier Metge, Jean Marc Daronat

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Increased incidence of empyema in Polynesian children

Naomi Wright, Philip Hammond, Philip Morreau, James Hamill

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Viewpoints

Professional burnout – a regulatory perspective

Ron Paterson, John Adams

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The climate change challenge for general practice in New Zealand

Rochelle Phipps, Rebecca Randerson, Grant Blashki

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Clinical Correspondence

Hyperkalaemic paralysis

David Hamilton, Sergej Cicovic, Mark Rassie

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Medical image. A forehead lump

Badri Giri, Tapati Ghosh

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Letters

New Zealand Government should demand International Atomic Energy Agency reform—to help phase out nuclear power

Joanna Santa Barbara, Nick Wilson, Andrew Winnington

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New Zealand pertussis epidemiology and the Global Pertussis Initiative immunisation strategies

Stewart Reid, Elizabeth Wilson

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Promotion of nicotine replacement therapy and smoking cessation services at grocery stores

Jonathan Williman, Krystel Fernandes, Natalie Walker, Chris Bullen

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Prescribing antipsychotic medications to people with dementia

Matthew Croucher

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Response by Homeopath to Dr Holt's letter

Joseph Rozencwajg

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More reaction to Dr Holt's letter

Claire Bleakley

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Two cases of goitre

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituaries

Maysoon Mahdi Abbas

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Samuel Philip Wrightson

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Book Review

Malaria Letters. The Ross-Laveran Correspondence 1896–1908 (Edwin R Nye)

José G B Derraik

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