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Editorial

Making World No Smoking Day Redundant

Chris Bullen, Marewa Glover

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Original Articles

Youth experiences of secondhand smoke exposure in New Zealand: evidence from 5 national surveys (2000 to 2008)

Louise Marsh, Rob McGee, Andrew Gray, Rhiannon Newcombe, Rose Patterson

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Benchmarking benzodiazepines and antipsychotics in the last 24 hours of life

Brian Ensor, Daphne Cohen

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Nurse titration clinics to achieve rapid control of blood pressure

Dominic Taylor, Veronica van der Merwe, Walter van der Merwe

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Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) as a screening tool for postnatal depression in Samoan and Tongan women living in New Zealand

Alec J Ekeroma, Bettina Ikenasio-Thorpe, Sara Weeks, Jesse Kokaua, Kasalanaita Puniani, Peter Stone, Siale A Foliaki

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Is it NICE to monitor lithium routinely?

Andrew McKean, Jane Vella-Brincat

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Trends in child and adolescent discharges at a New Zealand psychiatric inpatient unit between 1998 and 2007

Kirsten van Kessel, Elizabeth Myers, Sarah Stanley, Peter W Reed

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Viewpoint

Partner notification for sexually transmitted infections. Why can’t we talk about it?

Sunita Azariah

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Clinical Correspondence

Delayed puberty from partial 17-alpha hydroxylase enzyme deficiency

Michael Croxson, Megan Ogilvie, Stella Milsom, John Lewis, James Davidson, Gill Rumsby

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Ischaemic stroke with headache as its only manifestation

Wael Radwan, Abdallah El-Sabbagh, Samir Atweh, Raja Sawaya

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Letters

Increasing prescription part charges will increase health inequalities in New Zealand

Santosh Jatrana, Peter Crampton, Ken Richardson, Pauline Norris

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Smokefree cars to protect children and denormalise smoking: a mini-review of New Zealand literature

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards, Heather Gifford

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Health Workforce

Bill Douglas

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Reply by New Zealand Chiropractors' Association to Edzard Ernst's April 2012 "research"

Corrian Poelsma

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Dominion Notes: The increasing popularity of the cigarette

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 211th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Wednesday 9 May 2012

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituaries

William Leslie Francis Utley

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Henry Stone

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