This Issue in the Journal

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

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Editorials

Quality improvement: time for radical thought and measurable action

Louise Thornley, Robert Logan, Ashley Bloomfield

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Plagiocephaly - more questions than answers

Ed Mitchell, Lynne Hutchison

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Original Articles

The Safe-T-Sleep® device: safety and efficacy in maintaining infant sleeping position

Tristan de Chalain

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Resuscitation teaching in New Zealand schools

Christiana Lafferty, Peter Larsen, Duncan Galletly

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Current practice for anticoagulation prophylaxis in inguinal hernia surgery: a questionnaire survey

Suhail Anwar, Patrick Scott

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Correction of deformational auricular anomalies by moulding - results of a fast-track service

Swee Tan, Anna Wright, Anna Hemphill, Kari Ashton, Joan Evans

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Case Report

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a report of two cases occurring during menstruation

Robert Slight, Ali Asgar Behranwala, Onyekwelu Nzewi, Rajesh Sivaprakasam, Edward Brackenbury, Pankaj Mankad

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Viewpoint

Drotrecogin alfa (recombinant human activated protein C) in severe sepsis - a New Zealand viewpoint

Janet Liang, Stephen Streat, John Torrance, Jamie Sleigh, Ross Freebairn, Mace Ramsay

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Case Notes

Two brothers with nail cyanosis

Ellis Hon, Albert Li

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Survival of the New Zealand Medical Journal

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Medical Image

Muscular emesis

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Ban on DTCA represents State takeover

Richard McGrath

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Direct-to-consumer advertising - yes it can compromise patient health

Scott Metcalfe, Wayne McNee, Peter Moodie

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NZ must not return to the pre-PSA era

Robin Smart

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OOS or MUD

R D Wigley

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Effects of male circumcision on female arousal and orgasm

Gillian Bensley, Gregory Boyle

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Medicolegal

Inappropriate sexual comments

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