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Editorial

Applied brain injury research in New Zealand: can we do better?

Valery L Feigin, Suzanne Barker-Collo

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Original Articles

Survey on the use of ototopical medications by New Zealand otolaryngologist/head and neck surgeons

Murali Mahadevan, David A M Wabnitz, David L McIntosh, Colin R S Brown

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The influence of steroid injections on the incidence of infection following total knee arthroplasty

Geoffrey Horne, Peter Devane, Andrew Davidson, Kathryn Adams, Gordon Purdie

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Clinical teaching capacity in New Zealand general practice

Susan Pullon, Ruth Lum

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A single question reliably identifies physically inactive women in primary care

Sally B Rose, C Raina Elley, Beverley A Lawton, Anthony C Dowell

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Review Article

Memory deficit after traumatic brain injury: how big is the problem in New Zealand and what management strategies are available?

Suzanne Barker-Collo, Valery L Feigin

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Case Reports

Variable presentation of post-traumatic hypopituitarism

Kingsley Nirmalaraj, Ian Holdaway

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MRI: a valuable tool in diagnosis of splenunculus in chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

Sadat Muzammil, Frederick B Kanyike

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Viewpoint

Bringing epilepsy out of the shadows in New Zealand

Peter S Bergin, Lynette G Sadleir, Elizabeth B Walker

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The recent outbreak of plague in Auckland (part 1)

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Medical Images

A sequel of deranged metabolic control

Nitin Kumar, Yiu-Chung Cheung, George I Varughese, Jonathan J Benn, Andrew C Willis

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Thalamic lesion in a child

Ersin Ozturk, Guner Sonmez, Hakan Mutlu, H Onur Sildiroglu, C Cinar Basekim, Esref Kizilkaya

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Legionnaires’ disease and the risk of burns in children

Hasith Wickramaratne, Spencer Beasley

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Fatal cardiomyopathy due to quetiapine

Allister Bush, Carl Burgess

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New Zealand’s cervical screening legislation—and response

Brendon Gray, Hazel Lewis, Diane Casey, Katharine Wallis

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Mind games (continued)

Roger M Ridley-Smith, Roger Mulder

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Hypothyroidism in patients with arthritis and macroglossia—and response

Weekitt Kittisupamongkol, Varun Dhir

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Recent changes in cigarette packaging in New Zealand may continue to mislead smokers

Jo Peace, Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

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Obituaries

George Ian Louisson

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Andrew David Lovell Hunter

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Notices

Reviewers for the New Zealand Medical Journal in 2006

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Reviewers for the New Zealand Medical Journal in 2007

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Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Review

Making Sense of Medical Ethics: A hands on guide (Alan G Johnson, Paul RV Johnson)

MaryLeigh Moore

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