This Issue in the Journal

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

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Editorials

New Zealand deserves better. Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicines in New Zealand: for health or for profit?

Les Toop, Dee Richards, with response from Barrie Saunders

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Direct-to-consumer advertising - where does the public interest lie?

Barrie Saunders, with response from Les Toop and Dee Richards

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What do we need to do to reduce smoking among teenagers?

Alistair Woodward

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Haemophilia treatment: where to from here? Have the risks increased?

Jim Faed

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Original Articles

Smoke-free schools? Results of a secondary school smoking policies survey 2002

Helen Darling, Anthony Reeder

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The challenge arising from the cost of haemophilia care: an audit of haemophilia treatment at Auckland Hospital

Paul Harper, Mary Brasser, Louise Moore, Lochie Teague, Lydia Pitcher, Paul Ockelford

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Screening for diabetic retinopathy using the mobile retinal camera: the Waikato experience

Elham Reda, Peter Dunn, Clive Straker, David Worsley, Keith Gross, Isla Trapski, Susan Whitcombe

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Differential prescribing of inhaled corticosteroids in New Zealand general practice

Jason Hall, Alister Penrose, Andrew Tomlin, James Reid

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Case Report

Necrotising fasciitis in neonates: a multidisciplinary approach

Stanley Loo, Stephen Mills, Michael Muller, Vipul Upadhyay

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Brief Report

Who attends an outpatient eye clinic and how do they get there?

Rebecca Stack, Richard Clemett

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Case Notes

Long-term maternal outcome after pregnancy in women with diabetic nephropathy

Warwick Bagg, Leonie Neale, Patrick Henley, Paul MacPherson, Tim Cundy

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Inebriety as a disease

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Continuing Education Committee Anaesthetists in New Zealand, Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 September 2002

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Medical Image

The nitty gritty testicle

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Post-dural-puncture headache in a seven-month-old boy?

CCR Buchanan, IM Cranshaw, NA Cranshaw

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Migration, mobility and the exposure fallacy: an issue for New Zealand

Frank Houghton, Kevin Kelleher, Bruce Duncan

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Obituaries

Hubert Douglas John Lovell-Smith (Hugh)

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James Aitken Baird

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Dermot Morrah

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Notice

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Review

ABC of diabetes (5th edition), Peter Watkins

Helen Lunt

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