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Editorial

Good news for patients with colorectal cancer?

Ian Bissett

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Original Articles

Colorectal cancer treated at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand: a comparison of 1993 and 1998 cohorts

Bridget Robinson, Frank Frizelle, Michelle Dickson, Chris Frampton

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Excess cost associated with Staphylococcus aureus poststernotomy mediastinitis

Arlo Upton, Pat Smith, Sally Roberts

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Effect of volcanic gas exposure on urine, blood, and serum chemistry

Michael Durand, Chris Florkowski, Peter George, Trevor Walmsley, Phil Weinstein

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Measurement of thiopurine methyl transferase activity guides dose-initiation and prevents toxicity from azathioprine

Christiaan Sies, Christopher Florkowski, Peter George, Richard Gearry, Murray Barclay, James Harraway, Linda Pike, Trevor Walmsley

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Recurrent myoglobinuria due to carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency: clinical, biochemical, and genetic features of adult-onset cases

Dean Kilfoyle, David Hutchinson, Howard Potter, Peter George

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Getting started as a hepatobiliary surgeon: lessons learned from the first 100 hepatectomies as a consultant

Jonathan Koea

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Elevation of serum liver enzymes after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

George Sakorafas, George Anagnostopoulos, Vania Stafyla, Theofilos Koletis, Nikolaos Kotsifopoulos, Stavros Tsiakos, George Kassaras

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Case Reports

Suture material as a nidus for common bile duct stones: taking a closer look

Paul Fortun, George Anagnostopoulos, Bernard Laurence

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Metastatic colorectal carcinoma: clinicopathological downstaging following neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Simon Janes

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Viewpoint

Informing consent in New Zealand research: researchers’ conflict of interest and patient vulnerability

Martin Tolich, Kate Mary Baldwin

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The scope and limitations of balneological treatment: diabetes, chronic Bright’s disease, renal calculus, dyspepsia, obesity, and cachexia

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Medical History

An early description of cancer-to-cancer metastasis in 1848

Wilson Onuigbo

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Medical Image

Thunderclap Headache

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Regarding ‘Prostate cancer screening—finding the middle road forward’ editorial

Ann Richardson

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Regarding ‘Prostate cancer screening—finding the middle road forward’ editorial

Cheryl Brunton

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Regarding ‘Prostate cancer screening—finding the middle road forward’ editorial

Paul Corwin

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What is the middle position on screening?

Charlotte Paul

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Spending decisions for tobacco-related disease treatment and tobacco control: an example and a solution

George Thomson, Nick Wilson

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Food pricing favours saturated fat consumption: supermarket data

Nick Wilson, Osman Mansoor

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Medicolegal

Failure to adequately investigate

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Notices

Computerworld Excellence Awards 2005 (Excellence in the Use of IT in Health): entries invited

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The Hawke’s Bay Medical Research Foundation: funding applications invited

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Book Reviews

World Atlas of Epidemic Diseases (Andrew Cliff, Peter Haggett, Matthew Smallman-Raynor)

Alan Pithie

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Move More Eat Less: Putting the squeeze on lifestyle disease (Elaine Rush)

Brennan Edwardes

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