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Editorials

Inequities in health and the Marmot Symposia: time for a stocktake

Tony Blakely, Don Simmers, Norman Sharpe

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Medically assessing refugees who may have been victims of torture

A Martin F Reeve

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Original Articles

Prevalence of victims of torture in the health screening of quota refugees in New Zealand during 2007–2008 and implications for follow-up care

G E Poole, Grant Galpin

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The use of the ‘rollie’ in New Zealand: preference for loose tobacco among an ethnically diverse low socioeconomic urban population

Vili Nosa, Marewa Glover, Sandar Min, Robert Scragg, Chris Bullen, Judith McCool, Anette Kira

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A cross-sectional study of opinions related to the tobacco industry and their association with smoking status amongst 14–15 year old teenagers in New Zealand

Judith McCool, Janine Paynter, Robert Scragg

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Comparison of two modes of delivery of an exercise prescription scheme

Louise Foley, Ralph Maddison, Zanta Jones, Paul Brown, Anne Davys

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Voices of students in competition: Health Science First Year at the University of Otago, Dunedin

Madgerie Jameson, Jeffrey Smith

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An investigation into the health benefits of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for people living with a range of chronic physical illnesses in New Zealand

Jillian Simpson, Tim Mapel

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Comorbidity among patients with colon cancer in New Zealand

Diana Sarfati, Lavinia Tan, Tony Blakely, Neil Pearce

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What do specialists and GPs think about the introduction of colorectal cancer screening? A qualitative study

Gillian M Abel, Lee Thompson

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Review Article

Herpes rugbiorum: a review on scrum pox and rugby player guidelines

Yassar A S Alamri

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Viewpoint

Smokefree prisons in New Zealand: maximising the health gain

Jeny Gautam, Marewa Glover, Ainara Scott, David Welch

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Clinical Correspondence

Constriction “Band-Aid” syndrome causing digital ischaemia

Jonathan Heather, Marcus Bisson

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Left main stem stenosis in the unstable patient—forewarned is forearmed

Michael Liang, Damian J Kelly, Gerard Devlin

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Medical image. A rare case of brachial artery fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD)

David R Lewis, Timothy Buckenham, YiQian (Estella) Yeo

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Letters

Once-daily amoxicillin for Group A Streptococcal (GAS) sore throat as the other first-line option: a clarification of the NZ sore throat guidelines

Diana Lennon, Melissa Kerdemelidis, Bruce Arroll, Norman Sharpe

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Plain packaging for tobacco in New Zealand: local evidence and arguments

Nick Wilson, Janet Hoek, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

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Antipyretic therapy for influenza infection—benefit or harm?

Sally Eyers, Sarah Jefferies, Philippa Shirtcliffe, Kyle Perrin, Richard Beasley

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Comment on Government response to air pollution articles

Peter Moller

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Off-label treatment—and response

Mike McAlevey, Paul Glue, Chris Gale

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Teaching of musculoskeletal medicine in New Zealand

Russell Tregonning, Chris Bossley

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Keep the focus on contaminated poultry to further curtail New Zealand’s campylobacteriosis epidemic

Michael G Baker, Ann Sears, Nick Wilson, Nigel French, Jonathan Marshall, Petra Muellner, Donald Campbell, Peter van der Logt, Rob Lake

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The treatment of functional diseases of the stomach: part 1

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2012

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