This Issue in the Journal

A summary of the original articles featured in this issue of the NZMJ

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Editorial

Push Play: what’s under the umbrella?

Grant Schofield

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Original Articles

Evaluation of the national ‘Push Play’ campaign in New Zealand - creating population awareness of physical activity

Adrian Bauman, Grant McLean, Deb Hurdle, Sue Walker, John Boyd, Ingrid van Aalst, Harriette Carr

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Efficacy of an oral, 10-day course of high-dose calciferol in correcting vitamin D deficiency

Fiona Wu, Toni Staykova, Anne Horne, Judy Clearwater, Ruth Ames, Barbara Mason, Brandon Orr-Walker, Gregory Gamble, Marilyn Scott, Ian Reid

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The new rural health curriculum at Dunedin School of Medicine: how has it influenced the attitudes of medical students to a career in rural general practice?

Martyn Williamson, Andrew Gormley, Janne Bills, Pat Farry

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Insertion of intrauterine devices: a comparison of experience with Mirena and Multiload Cu 375 during post-marketing monitoring in New Zealand

Mira Harrison-Woolrych, Lifeng Zhou, David Coulter

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Review Article

Chiropractic manipulation for non-spinal pain - a systematic review

Edzard Ernst

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Case Report

Twenty years of follow up of a rare lipoprotein variant (apoE2-Dunedin) in twins

Edwin Nye

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Viewpoint

Is there a role for placebo analgesia?

Jon Jureidini

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Case Notes

Severe hyperkalaemia with prescription of potassium-retaining agents in an elderly patient

Jennifer Martin , Susannah Mourton , Gary Nicholls

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The operative treatment of movable kidney

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 165th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 22 May 2003

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Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Christchurch Medical Research Society, Friday 25 July 2003

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Medical Image

Non-pylori Helicobacter

Jacqui Keenan, Stephanie Neal, Richard Gearry

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Sound health policy decisions required for prostate cancer screening

Brian Cox

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Fludrocortisone and chronic fatigue syndrome

Riccardo Baschetti

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Obituaries

Elizabeth Mary Aird Glennie (nee Ross)

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Alan William McArthur

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Book Reviews

Magnetic resonance imaging in stroke, Stephen Davis, Marc Fisher and Steven Warach (eds)

Mike Hurrell

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Sociology of health in New Zealand, Kevin Dew and Allison Kirkman

Jennie Connor

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