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Editorials

Chlamydia—the problem that just won’t go away

Edward Coughlan, Sue Bagshaw

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Marketing communications and obesity: a view from the dark side

Janet Hoek

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Original Articles

Prevalence and risk factors for Chlamydia trachomatis infection in female New Zealand university students

Michael Baker, Jose Ortega-Benito, Nick Garret, Collette Bromhead, Kathryn Leslie, Jane MacDonald, Anne McNicholas

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Low birth weight and cardiovascular risk factors in Auckland adolescents: a retrospective cohort study

Barbara Daly, Robert Scragg, David Schaaf, Patricia Metcalf

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Coeliac disease diagnosed at Starship Children’s Hospital: 1999–2002

Elisabeth Westerbeek, Stephen Mouat, Alison Wesley, Simon Chin

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Sore throat management in New Zealand general practice

Marjan Kljakovic, Peter Crampton

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Special Article

Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Vanuatu: a cause for concern and action

Dominik Zenner, Steven Russell

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Case Reports

McArdle’s disease (myophosphorylase deficiency) presenting as acute renal failure

Navdeep Sidhu, Thomas Thompson

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Recovery from pancytopaenia and liver dysfunction after administration of propylthiouracil for Graves' disease

Levent Kebapçılar, Sena Yeşil, Fırat Bayraktar, Ali Saklamaz, Tevfik Demir, Özkan Güngör, İnci Alacacıoğlu, Abdurrahman Çömlekçi

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Viewpoint

The right to remain in ignorance about genetic information—can such a right be defended in the name of autonomy?

Phillipa Malpas

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Special Series

PHARMAC and Ventolin in New Zealand

John Gillies, Jeff Brown, Cass Byrnes, Alan Farrell, David Graham

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Human instincts, normal and pathological: the sexual instinct

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

PHARMAC responds to Stewart Mann on dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonists

Andrew Davies, Scott Metcalfe, Peter Moodie, Wayne McNee

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Richard Milne responds to PHARMAC on discounting future health benefits and costs

Richard Milne

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Findings and methodological lessons from a small case-control study into campylobacteriosis in Wellington

Michael Baker, Nick Wilson, Mary McIntyre, Margot McLean

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Notice

Calling obituary writers

Roy Holmes

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Book Reviews

Guide to Arthrocentesis and Soft Tissue Injection (Bruce Carl Anderson)

Min Loke Wong

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The Doctor in Literature: satisfaction or resentment? (Solomon Posen)

John Morton

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