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Editorials

Is it time for treatment trials in addiction?

Roger Mulder

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Stroke care in New Zealand: a team game where everyone needs to run with the ball

John Gommans

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Code of Conduct for expert witnesses giving evidence before the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

Jonathan Coates

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Original Articles

Alcohol consumption and its contribution to the burden of coronary heart disease in middle-aged and older New Zealanders: a population-based case-control study

Susan Wells, Joanna Broad, Rodney Jackson

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Smoking in a New Zealand university student sample

Kypros Kypri, Joanne Baxter

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Reduction in crime by drug users on a methadone maintenance therapy programme in New Zealand

Ian Sheerin, Terri Green, Douglas Sellman, Simon Adamson, Daryle Deering

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Patterns of amphetamine use in New Zealand: findings from the 2001 National Drug Survey

Chris Wilkins, Megan Pledger, Krishna Bhatta, Sally Casswell

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Changes in stroke care at Auckland Hospital between 1996 and 2001

Alan Barber, Alison Charleston, Neil Anderson, David Spriggs, Derek Bennett, Patricia Bennett, Kirsty Thomas, Yvette Baker

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The Acute Stroke Unit at Middlemore Hospital: an evaluation in its first year of operation

Maria Di Matteo, Craig Anderson, Yogini Ratnasabapathy, Geoff Green, Kath Tryon

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Case Reports

A case of human poisoning by salinomycin, an agricultural antibiotic

Phillipa Story, Alan Doube

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Accidental subcutaneous copper salt injection: toxic effects and management

David Atkinson, Michael Beasley, Peter Dryburgh

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Viewpoint

Time for major roadworks on the tobacco road?

Julian Crane, Tony Blakely, Sarah Hill

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The contribution of the wealthy towards hospital services

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Medical Image

Pseudocyesis

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Withholding of annual practising certificates - and Response

Sue Ineson, Frank Frizelle

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Analysis of element content in scalp hair of healthy people and breast-cancer patients with SEM/EDX method

Eser Kilic, Sema Ozturk, Asuman Demiroglu, Zeki Yilmaz, Oguz Yildiz, Mehmet Akkurt, Recep Saraymen, Engin Ok

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Medicolegal

MPDT Practice Note Number Three

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Obituary

James Macalister Bremner

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Notices

Graham Aitken Nuffield Medical Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship

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Medical Benevolent Fund

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