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Editorials

Public health initiatives: science versus politics. What will the outcome be?

Andrew Marshall

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Interhospital and emergency transfers in New Zealand

Ross Freebairn

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Evaluation of thermography as a screening and diagnostic tool for breast cancer

Belinda Scott

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Original Articles

Paediatric spina bifida inpatient treatment at Wellington Regional Hospital: a cost analysis of sequential patients

Brendon Bowkett, Eamonn Deveral

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Air transport by the Wellington Flight Service: a descriptive analysis of interhospital transfers over a 5-year period in the Wellington region of New Zealand

Julia A Myers, Alex Psirides, Karyn Hathaway, Peter D Larsen

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Difficulties with defining lymphoedema after axillary dissection for breast cancer

Muhammad Asim, Alvin Cham, Sharmana Banerjee, Rachael Nancekivell, Gaelle Dutu, Catherine McBride, Shelley Cavanagh, Ross Lawrenson, Ian Campbell

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The epidemiology of serious skin infections in New Zealand children: comparing the Tairawhiti region with national trends

Cathryn O’Sullivan, Michael G Baker, Jane Zhang, Anna Davies, Geoffrey Cramp

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Serious skin infections in children: a review of admissions to Gisborne Hospital (2006–2007)

Cathryn O’Sullivan, Michael G Baker

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Skin infections in children in a New Zealand primary care setting: exploring beneath the tip of the iceberg

Cathryn O’Sullivan, Michael G Baker

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Review Article

Thermography as a screening and diagnostic tool: a systematic review

Anita Fitzgerald, Jessica Berentson-Shaw

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Clinical Correspondence

Latrodectism: case report of a katipo spider (Latrodectus katipo) bite and review of the literature

Lucinda Thatcher, Ron Janes

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Medical image. A skin diagnostic dilemma in a young female

Colleen Wylie, Paul Maurice

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Letters

National prescribing data for dabigatran

Scott Metcalfe, Peter Moodie

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A review of effects of retailer education on cigarette sales to minors in the greater Wellington region

Stephen Vega

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Fifty years since the Royal College Report: more action needed to achieve the “Smokefree New Zealand by 2025” goal

Nick Wilson, Janet Hoek, George Thomson, Tony Blakely, Richard Edwards

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

1899 BMJ special correspondence mentioning New Zealand

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Notice

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Review

George Stanley Sharp, 1887 to 1967: the story of a family doctor (Juliet Oliver)

Owen Prior

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