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Editorials

Bisphosphonates, osteonecrosis of the jaw, and pharmacovigilance

Matthew Doogue

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Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin is not a panacea but should be limited to those who can benefit

Peter Ganly, Ruth Spearing

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Original Articles

Utilisation of intravenous immunoglobulin in New Zealand: a clinical audit

David Hutchinson, Richard Charlewood, Peter Flanagan, Terry Mitchell

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Preventable kidney failure: the cost of diabetes neglect?

Zoltán Endre, Don Beaven, Adrian Buttimore

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Reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in New Zealand—what are the clinical laboratories doing?

Mohamed Saleem, Christopher Florkowski, for The Australasian Creatinine Consensus Working Group

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Making it pay and helping us stay: the viability of a rural general practice in New Zealand

J Campbell Murdoch

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Review Article

Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors—what we need to know

Umbreen Hasan

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Case Reports

Spontaneous submucosal haematoma of the oesophagus

Jeremy Rossaak, Christopher Wakeman, Grant Coulter

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Jaw osteonecrosis associated with bisphosphonates

Jodie Battley, Sisira Jayathissa, Eric Seneviratne

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Viewpoint

Osteonecrosis of the jaw and bisphosphonates—putting the risk in perspective

Mark Bolland, David Hay, Andrew Grey, Ian Reid, Tim Cundy

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The use and abuse of the Galvano-Cautery

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Medical Image

Portomesenteric venous gas

Selvaraj Joye Varghese, Nattusamy Loganathan, Eswaran Selvakumar, Prabhakaran Madhan, Shanmugasundram Rajendran, Venkataraman Jayanthi

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

SPARC (Sport & Recreation New Zealand) endorses the Auckland study of cardiovascular risk factors by Metcalf and colleagues

Diana O’Neill

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Cigarette pack covers (of health warnings) and individual freedom

Richard McGrath

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Wanganui Hospital

Roger Ridley-Smith

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Increasing ciprofloxacin resistance in gonorrhoea

Erana Gray, Jane Morgan

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Obituaries

William Luey

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John Borrie

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Notice

Graham Aitken Nuffield Medical Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship

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Book Review

Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: an international perspective (Geoff Meads)

Mark Cohen

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