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Editorials

Salamol and inequalities in New Zealand

Innes Asher

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Lung function: normal for New Zealand?

Robert Hancox, Joanne Baxter

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Alcohol and other drug treatment in New Zealand—one size doesn’t fit all

Ross McCormick, Chris Kalin, Terry Huriwai

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Asian Health Chart Book 2006: foundation for a new health agenda in New Zealand?

Max Abbott, Wilson Young

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Original Articles

Ventolin to Salamol—a crossover study in New Zealand

Shane Reti

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Asthmatics: too drunk to drive? The time curve of exhaled ethanol levels after use of Salamol in normal subjects

Oisin O’Connell, Lutz Beckert

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Complete reference ranges for pulmonary function tests from a single New Zealand population

Suzanne Marsh, Sarah Aldington, Mathew Williams, Mark Weatherall, Philippa Shirtcliffe, Amanda McNaughton, Alison Pritchard, Richard Beasley

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Defensive changes in medical practice and the complaints process: a qualitative study of New Zealand doctors

Wayne Cunningham, Susan Dovey

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Alcohol and drug treatment population profile: a comparison of 1998 and 2004 data in New Zealand

Simon Adamson, Doug Sellman, Daryle Deering, Paul Robertson, Karen de Zwart

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Recent population trends in amphetamine use in New Zealand: comparisons of findings from national household drug surveying in 1998, 2001, and 2003

Chris Wilkins, Paul Sweetsur, Sally Casswell

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Case Reports

Coma in an alcoholic: Marchiafava-Bignami disease

Lenneke Haas, David Tjan, Jos Van Die, Anton Vos, Arthur van Zanten

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Inferior vena cava thrombosis complicating tuberculosis

Mithun Raj, Aparna Agrawal

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Viewpoint

Asian health in New Zealand—progress and challenges

Kumanan Rasanathan, Shanthi Ameratunga, Samson Tse

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

1906 in review—including bubonic plague in Sydney

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Medical History

In Loving Memory: The Nurses’ Memorial Chapel, Christchurch, New Zealand

Anna Rogers

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Medical Image

Deep vein thrombosis due to absence of inferior vena cava

Charalabos Stratopoulos , Constantinos Pitsios , Panayota Valenti , George Anagnostopoulos , Epaminondas Kotronis

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Highly hazardous air quality associated with smoking in cars: New Zealand pilot study

Richard Edwards, Nick Wilson, Nevil Pierse

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Should New Zealand's Commerce Commission act on cigarette brand name deception?

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

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Voluntary laboratory surveillance of sexually transmitted infections is under threat

Jane Morgan, Geoff Spencer

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Lengthy ethics application process hinders medical research in New Zealand: time for review?

Geoffrey Horne

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Getting the point right: a response to Methuselah on acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis

Tim Ewer

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Can we change the hymn sheet? Campylobacteriosis not just from chicken

Warrick Nelson, Ben Harris

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Obituaries

Walter Stewart James Tongue

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Alexander Vincent Kurta

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Notice

A symposium celebrating the contributions of Dr Rod Ellis-Pegler to the field of infectious diseases in New Zealand

Clinical Education Centre, Auckland City Hospital, Thursday 16 November 2006

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Erratum

Secondhand smoke in New Zealand homes and cars: exposure, attitudes, and behaviours in 2004

NZMJ

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Book Review

Violence and Aggression in the Workplace (Paul Linsley) & Workplace Bullying in the NHS (Jacqueline Randle, editor)

Steven Kelly

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