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Editorials

Doctor Who? Inappropriate use of titles by some alternative "medicine" practitioners

David Colquhoun

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Drug misuse in sport: what the future holds

David Gerrard

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Original Articles

Use of inappropriate titles by New Zealand practitioners of acupuncture, chiropractic, and osteopathy

Andrew Gilbey

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Inpatients’ use, understanding, and attitudes towards traditional, complementary and alternative therapies at a provincial New Zealand hospital

Amanda Evans, Bruce Duncan, Patrick McHugh, John Shaw, Craig Wilson

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The potential direct impacts on human health resulting from the establishment of the painted apple moth (Teia anartoides) in New Zealand

José G B Derraik

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Testing and detection trends of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Waikato, New Zealand: 1998–2006

Jane Morgan

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A school and community outbreak of tuberculosis in Palmerston North, New Zealand

Lester Calder, Jane Rivers, Michael Hayhurst, Jeff Brown, Andrea Forde, Lou Gallagher, Patrick O’Connor

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Review Article

Border control measures in the influenza pandemic plans of six South Pacific nations: a critical review

Melissa McLeod, Heath Kelly, Nick Wilson, Michael Baker

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Viewpoint

An alternative consideration in drug testing in elite athletes

Michael Legge, Ruth Fitzgerald, Lynnette Jones

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Clinical Correspondence

Interferon-induced haemolytic anaemia in hepatitis C

Mohammed Al-Ansari, Frank Weilert, Graeme Dickson

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An unusual cause of a spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in a young healthy woman

Lenneke E M van Lelyveld-Haas, Angela J E Dekkers, Bent Postma, David H T Tjan

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A rare location of Castleman’s disease: parotid region

Fazli Erdoğan, S Altaş, E Altaş, O Yoruk, S A Ozmen

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Medical image. Dog owner’s disease

Ali Er, Erhan Turgut

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

An outbreak of scarlet fever

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 193rd Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 3 July 2008

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Vulval skin condition

Amanda Oakley, Darion Rowan, Tarek Darwish

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Time to cry “enough”

Roger M Ridley-Smith

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A small investment

Bill Douglas

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Seroprevalence of HBsAg in females in a North India tertiary care hospital, with special reference to pregnancy

Nidhi Singla, Jagdish Chander

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Increasing local global health awareness through medical aid

Juergen K Landmann, James F English

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Obituary

Stephen Watson Taylor

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Book Review

Therapeutic Landscapes (Geographies of Health)

Jamie Pearce

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