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Editorials

Concerns of health providers and parents affect immunisation coverage

Nikki Turner

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Answers about coeliac disease and still more questions

Mark Lane

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Original Articles

Why do parents choose not to immunise their children?

Matilda Hamilton, Paul Corwin, Suzanne Gower, Sue Rogers

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Attitudes to immunisation: a survey of health professionals in the Rotorua District

Tim Jelleyman, Andrew Ure

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Serological evidence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among pregnant women in Auckland

Arthur Morris, Margaret Croxson

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Norovirus outbreaks in a hospital setting: the role of infection control

Sarah Lynn, Julianne Toop, Carl Hanger, Nigel Millar

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A thirty-year (1970-1999) study of coeliac disease in the Canterbury region of New Zealand

Bramwell Cook, Robert Oxner, Bruce Chapman, Martin Whitehead, Michael Burt

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Review Article

Seeking the ideal anti-hypertensive agent: a practical review of the hypertension drug trials

Hean Teik Ong, Jin Seng Cheah

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Viewpoint

Emergency department overcrowding - can we fix it?

Michael Ardagh, Sandra Richardson

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Case Notes

Simultaneous presentation of Type 1 diabetes and thyrotoxicosis as a medical emergency

David Lim, Helen Lunt, Robert Ojala, John Turner

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Spontaneous fracture of the humeral shaft associated with snowball throwing

Alan O’Connor, Mark Bell, Patricia Higgins

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The need for better provision for epileptics

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 170th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 13 November 2003

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Medical Image

Suspicious pulmonary nodules

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Buteyko: an effective complementary therapy

Patrick McHugh, Fergus Aitcheson, Bruce Duncan, Frank Houghton

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Improving medication safety

John Morton

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Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis presenting without fever - and Response

Barnett Bond, Ray Cursons, Jamie Sleigh

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A new push to help smokers, or time for a Holiday?

Trish Fraser, Murray Laugesen

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The Green Prescription and the launch of the NZ Register of Exercise Professionals - and Response

Richard Beddie, Phil Handcock, Carolyn Jenkins

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The Green Prescription: being active is easy and can be fun - and Response

Diana O'Neill, Phil Handcock, Carolyn Jenkins

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Book Review

The fair beginning of a time, Bill Parkes

Frank Frizelle

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