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Editorials

Suicide prevention in New Zealand

Roger Mulder

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Abdominal aortic aneurysm—can we improve on current management?

Ian Thomson

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Original Articles

Abdominal aortic aneurysm surveillance: application of the UK Small Aneurysm Trial to a New Zealand tertiary hospital

Timothy Buckenham, Justin Roake, David Lewis, Malcolm Gordon, Isabel Wright

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Variability in counselling patients regarding the hereditary nature of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Lack of evidence or resources?

Prathyusha Nakka, Jen Chu, Justin Roake, David Lewis

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Endoluminal repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm: the Middlemore Hospital experience

Janaka Wickremesekera, Wilbur Farmillo, Stewart Hawkins, Homayoun Zargar, Anwar Choudhary, Peter Vanniasingham

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Prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use in Christchurch, New Zealand: children attending general practice versus paediatric outpatients

Kris Wilson, Claire Dowson, Dee Mangin

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Extemporaneous compounding in a sample of New Zealand hospitals: a retrospective survey

Therése Kairuz, Srey Chhim, Fhazeel Hasan, Karishma Kumar, Aarti Lal, Roshni Patel, Ranjani Singh, Mridula Dogra, Sanjay Garg

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Education together with a preprinted sticker improves the prescribing of prophylactic enoxaparin

Patrick Gladding, Fiona Larsen, Hilary Durrant, Peter Black

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Review Article

Effective strategies for suicide prevention in New Zealand: a review of the evidence

Annette Beautrais, David Fergusson, Carolyn Coggan, Catherine Collings, Carolyn Doughty, Pete Ellis, Simon Hatcher, John Horwood, Sally Merry, Roger Mulder, Richie Poulton, Lois Surgenor

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Case Reports

Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the gallbladder with cholelithiasis masquerading as acute cholecystitis: case report and literature review

Wan-Ting Huang, Shih-Sung Chuang, Chao-Cheng Huang, Chin-Li Lu, Hock-Liew Eng

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A 52-year-old woman with recurrent haemolysis associated with “splenosis"

Madan Joshi

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Viewpoint

Population-based funding formulae cultural coefficients: seeking a more equitable distribution of health dollars in New Zealand

Graham Mellsop, Kahu McClintock, Gaelle Dutu

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Presidential Address: the ordinary quacks

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Medical Image

Colic

Chao-Yang Chen, Teng-Wei Chen, Chun-Wen Chen, Ning-Chi Wang

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Water-cooler Legionella

Mona Schousboe, Mel Brieseman

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Just saying “no” to pharmaceutical sponsorship

David Menkes, Manilall Maharajh

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Lessons for the criminal justice process from evidence-based medical practice?

Richard Edwards, Nick Wilson

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Addressing the threat of climate change: is New Zealand lagging behind?

Nick Wilson, Molly Melhuish

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The price of healthy eating: further research urgently needed

Keitha Small, Louise Signal

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Interpreting MCNZ's recent statement: nothing new

Barney Feltham

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Effects of selenium supplementation on New Zealanders’ health

David Walpole

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Obituaries

Gerald Jack Ogg

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Margaret Neave

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George Vladimir Zwonnikoff

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