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Editorials

New Zealanders’ love affair with “alternative” medicine: reason for concern?

Edzard Ernst

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Influenza vaccination among New Zealand healthcare workers: low rates are concerning

Lance Jennings

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Original Articles

Complementary and alternative medicines (including traditional Māori treatments) used by presenters to an emergency department in New Zealand: a survey of prevalence and toxicity

Tonia Nicholson

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Antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections before and after a education campaign as reported by general practitioners in New Zealand

Linda Sung, Justine Arroll, Bruce Arroll, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Ngaire Kerse, Pauline Norris

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Public views and use of antibiotics for the common cold before and after an education campaign in New Zealand

Misty Curry, Linda Sung, Bruce Arroll, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Ngaire Kerse, Pauline Norris

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How many antibiotic prescriptions are unsubsidised in New Zealand?

Pauline Norris, Silvia Funke, Gordon Becket, Denise Ecke, Lillian Reiter, Peter Herbison

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Patients consulting outside of funded practices within primary health organisations: implications for utilisation reporting

Jayden MacRae, Cathy O’Malley, Mary Brown

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Inhalant abuse in New Zealand

Michael Beasley, Laura Frampton, John Fountain

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Case Reports

Ayurvedic medicine: patients in peril from plumbism

Johan van Schalkwyk, James Davidson, Barry Palmer, Virginia Hope

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Nephrotoxicity of BZP-based herbal party pills: a New Zealand case report

Mohammed Alansari, David Hamilton

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Special Series

Anaphylaxis management: the essential role of adrenaline (epinephrine) auto-injectors. Should PHARMAC fund them in New Zealand?

Penny Fitzharris, Marianne Empson, Rohan Ameratunga, Jan Sinclair, Vincent Crump, Richard Steele, Brian Broom

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Odds and ends of a year's surgery. An unusually large ovarian cyst

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Medical Image

Tussigenic trachea

Dipesh Duttaroy, Jitendra Jagtap, Ujjwal Bansal, Braja Sunder Patra

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Hazardous and beneficial nutritional messages in 858 televised food advertisements during children’s viewing hours

Nick Wilson, Louise Signal, Sarah Nicholls, George Thomson

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Wait and be seen

Roger Ridley-Smith

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The Finsbury Dispensary

Roger Ridley-Smith

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Obituary

Richard Arthur Cartwright

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Book Reviews

Understanding Doctors’ Performance (Jim Cox, Jennifer King, Allen Hutchinson, Pauline McAvoy)

Iain Martin

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A Handful of Herbs (Karina Hilterman)

Brennan Edwardes

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