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Editorial

Gambling and health: uncomfortable bedfellows

Max Abbott

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Original Articles

Problem gambling risk factors and associated behaviours and health status: results from the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey

Kylie Mason, Richard Arnold

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Problem gambling: patients affected by their own or another’s gambling may approve of help from general practitioners

Sean Sullivan, Ross McCormick, Michael Lamont, Alison Penfold

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Comparison of plasma adiponectin levels in New Zealand Māori and Caucasian individuals

Brett Shand, Peter Elder, Russell Scott, Nicola Poa, Christopher M Frampton

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Ethnic differences in the prevalence of new and known diabetes mellitus, impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose. Diabetes Heart and Health Survey (DHAH) 2002–2003, Auckland New Zealand

Gerhard Sundborn, Patricia Metcalf, Robert Scragg, David Schaaf, Lorna Dyall, Dudley Gentles, Peter Black, Rodney Jackson

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Alcohol assessment: the practice, knowledge, and attitudes of staff working in the general medical wards of a large metropolitan hospital

Justin Pulford, Ross McCormick, Amanda Wheeler, Patrick Firkin, Ian Scott, Gail Robinson

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Case Reports

An international surgical collaboration for the management of pulmonary artery sarcoma: a New Zealand experience

Yaso Kathiravel, David Westwood, Jeff Macemon, Harsh Singh

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Hepatic portal venous gas in a patient with pneumatosis intestinalis

Chih-Hao Shen, Heng-Cheng Chu, Wei-Kuo Chang, You-Chen Chao, Tsai-Yuan Hsieh

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Medical Benevolent Fund and the Defence Union

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Research Seminar, Thursday 15 March 2007

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Medical Image

A vascular phenomenon

Utpal Nandy, George I Varughese, Yelin L Hock

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

ACC on the back pain article by Crawford et al—and Response

Kimberly-Anne Ford

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Medical students denied access to normal vaginal deliveries

Name and affiliation withheld upon request

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Acknowledging best practice in medical education

Andrew Carson-Stevens, Iain J Robbé

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Systemic health system problems

John Cook

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Metoprolol-induced hyperkalaemia in chronic respiratory acidosis

Andrei M Beliaev, Warren Smith

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Lessons from Hong Kong and other countries for outdoor smokefree areas in New Zealand?

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

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Reply to the editorial “World No Tobacco Day (31 May 2007)—did anybody notice?”

Judy Li, Michele Grigg

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Obituaries

Diana Manby Mason

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Alan Guibal Bradford

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Notice

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Erratum

Arthur Leslie Batt [obituary]

NZMJ

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