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Editorials

Uveitis, drugs, and the HLAB27 antigen

Ainsley Morris, Mark Elder

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The importance (and cost) of editorial independence

Frank Frizelle

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Original Articles

Uveitis screening: HLAB27 antigen and ankylosing spondylitis in a New Zealand population

Rachael Niederer, Helen Danesh-Meyer

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Laparoscopic splenectomy at Middlemore Hospital, New Zealand: a safe procedure with heterogeneous indications

Tarik Sammour, Garth Poole, Adam Bartlett, Hilary Blacklock

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New Zealand’s early experience in stapled haemorrhoidopexy

Sydney Ch’ng, Mike Hulme-Moir

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Appendicitis in South Auckland, New Zealand

Maryam Mahmoud, Andrew Hill

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Ambulatory oesophageal manometry and pH monitoring for investigation of chest pain: a New Zealand experience

Rees Cameron, Murray Barclay, Bruce Dobbs

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Carotid endarterectomy under regional anaesthesia at Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand: 1994–2003

Ian Thomson, Medhat Fanous

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Coronary artery bypass graft surgery in New Zealand’s Auckland region: a comparison between the clinical priority assessment criteria score and the actual clinical priority assigned

Mary Seddon, Joanna Broad, Sue Crengle, Dale Bramley, Rod Jackson, Harvey White

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Review Article

Should New Zealand continue signing up to the Pethidine Protocol?

Edward Shipton

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Case Reports

Drug-induced optic neuritis and uveitis secondary to bisphosphonates

Rebecca Stack, Kenneth Tarr

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Eosinophilic oesophagitis: an emerging important cause for undiagnosed dysphagia

Stephen Inns, John Wyeth, Duncan Lamont, Nigel Stace

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Special Series

Antiresorptive agents, raloxifene, and PHARMAC

Nigel Gilchrist

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Case report of a pregnant woman

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Medical Image

Cutaneous metastases of pancreatic adenocarcinoma

John Moschos, Dimitrios Paikos, Dimitrios Tragiannidis, Zissis Antonopoulos, Anthia Gatopoulou, Konstantinos Soufleris, Ioannis Katsos, Anestis Tarpagos

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

PHARMAC responds on agents to prevent osteoporotic fractures

Scott Metcalfe, Tommy Wilkinson, Dilky Rasiah

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Fees versus assistance for New Zealand junior doctors: some are less fortunate

Bevan Jenkins

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The public should pay for the Medical Council’s activities: a reader’s viewpoint

Alastair Grant

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Auditing diabetes in pregnancy care in New Zealand

David Simmons, Jeff Flack, David McIntyre

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Nurse prescribing: safety and accountability

Karen Hoare

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More from PHARMAC on temozolomide: feedback needed

Dilky Rasiah

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Obituaries

Stewart Kennerley Watson

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Charles Notley Sorrell

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Book Review

WHO Report 2005—Global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing

Reviewed by Lutz Beckert

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