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Editorials

Monoamine oxidase, addiction, and the “warrior” gene hypothesis

Rod Lea, Geoffrey Chambers

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Improving Māori health outcomes with decision support

Phil Hider

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Original Articles

Assessing Māori/non-Māori differences in cardiovascular disease risk and risk management in routine primary care practice using web-based clinical decision support: (PREDICT CVD-2)

Tania Riddell, Rod Jackson, Susan Wells, Joanna Broad, Lot Bannink

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Māori and non-Māori differences in caesarean section rates: a national review

Ricci Harris, Bridget Robson, Elana Curtis, Gordon Purdie, Donna Cormack, Papaarangi Reid

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Is it possible to distribute a scarce resource equitably? Access to invasive procedures for patients with acute myocardial infarction

Phillip Insull, Ritwik Kejrewal, Hitesh Patel, Jonathan Christiansen, Anthony Scott, Hamish Hart, Colin Edwards, Guy Armstrong

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Improving care to stroke patients: adding an acute stroke unit helps

Carl Hanger, Valerie Fletcher, John Fink, Andrew Sidwell, Anne Roche

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Case Reports

Snakes alive! Caput medusae due to cerebral venous angioma

Hu Liang Low, Brian Simpson

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Beware of infants with respiratory distress, rash, and hepatomegaly at birth: a case of congenital syphilis

Malcolm Battin, Lesley Voss

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Viewpoints

Risk-taking: behind the warrior gene story

Tony Merriman, Vicky Cameron

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Warrior genes and risk-taking science

Peter Crampton, Chris Parkin

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The Health and Safety in Employment Act and the influenza vaccination of healthcare workers

Stuart McLennan, Leo Anthony Celi, Paul Roth

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Presidential Address: Richard John Seddon tribute and fake doctors under fire

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Medical Image

A boy with a limp

Jubbin Jacob, Thomas Paul

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Talking health, doing harm: New Zealand Government investment in industries that kill

Nick Wilson, George Thomson

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Vasectomy procedures

Phil Airey

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PHARMAC and statins—correction is needed

Scott Metcalfe, Peter Moodie

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Obituary

Alan Maxwell Clarke

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Erratum

Vincristine for the treatment of Kasabach-Merritt syndrome: recent New Zealand case experience

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Book Review

Examination paediatrics: a guide to paediatric training (3rd edition; Wayne Harris)

John Garrett

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