This Issue in the Journal

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

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Editorials

Maori/non-Maori alcohol consumption profiles: implications for reducing health inequalities

Kypros Kypri

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Improving quality: maintaining the momentum

Gerald Moss

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Original Articles

Differences in patterns of alcohol consumption between Maori and non-Maori in Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Dale Bramley, Joanna Broad, Ricci Harris, Papaarangi Reid, Rod Jackson, for the Alcohol Burden of Disease and Disability Group

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Antidepressant poisoning deaths in New Zealand for 2001

David Reith, John Fountain, Murray Tilyard, Rebecca McDowell

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Epidemiology of slipped capital femoral epiphysis in a population with a high proportion of New Zealand Maori and Pacific children

Susan Stott, Terri Bidwell

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The Auckland Breast Cancer Register: a special project of the Auckland Breast Cancer Study Group

Lorraine Neave, Vernon Harvey, Chelleraj Benjamin, Paul Thompson, Ora Pellett, Jeremy Whitlock, Wayne Jones, Garth Poole

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Viewpoint

Replacing sugar-based soft drinks with sugar-free alternatives could slow the progress of the obesity epidemic: have your Coke® and drink it too

Emme Chacko, Ingrid McDuff, Rod Jackson

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Case Notes

New Zealand’s first fatality linked to use of 1,4-butanediol (1,4-B, Fantasy): no evidence of coingestion or comorbidity

Lynn Theron, Karl Jansen, Adrian Skinner

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Clozapine-associated polyserositis

Allen Lim, Pathmanathan Sivakumaran, Marie Israel

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Diet in health and sickness

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Medical Image

Mediastinal pseudo-mass

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Medicolegal

Medical discipline - not guilty

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Disgraceful conduct - unsafe practice

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Obituaries

Heath Thompson

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William Geddes Shiach

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Book Review

e-Pathways: computers and the patient’s journey through care, Kathryn de Luc and Julian Todd (eds)

Gerald Moss

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