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Editorials

The price of Texas Tea: oil, that is

Alexandra Macmillan, Graeme Lindsay

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PSA testing in asymptomatic men to diagnose prostate cancer remains experimental

Brian Cox, Mary Jane Sneyd

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Original Articles

Using census data to travel through time in New Zealand: patterns in journey to work data 1981–2006

Hannah M Badland, Mitch J Duncan, Grant M Schofield

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Spectrum of MECP2 mutations in New Zealand Rett syndrome patients

Anthony M Raizis, Mohammed Saleem, Richard MacKay, Peter M George

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The CYP2D6 metaboliser status of patients prescribed risperidone for the treatment of psychosis

Lucy Dunbar, Wayne Miles, Amanda Wheeler, Janie Sheridan, Justin Pulford, Rachael Butler

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Patients’ attitudes to the use of placebos: results from a New Zealand survey

Guo-Feng Chen, Malcolm H Johnson

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Special Article

Psychosocial impacts of quarantine during disease outbreaks and interventions that may help to relieve strain

Sarbjit S Johal

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Viewpoint

Do those afflicted with dementia have a moral duty to die? A response to Baroness Warnock

Phillipa J Malpas

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Clinical Correspondence

Myocardial bridging in aborted sudden death: just an innocent bystander?

Paul Knaapen, Marco J W Götte, Carel C de Cock

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A case of vasoactive intestinal polypeptideoma

John Sycamnias, Britta Strahl, Peter Stride, Boris Chern, Lasanthi Paranavithana

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Medical image. An unusual case of inguinal pain

Magdalena M Sakowska, John Short, Tim Eglinton

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Medical image. Aspiration of an incisor tooth in a poly-trauma patient

Ashraf F Hefny, Yousef El-Ashaal, Yassin B Ali, Fikri M Abu-Zidan

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Some exploded theories and forgotten remedies in medicine: part 5 (fevers, racial degeneration)

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Santé! Public health lessons from France for New Zealand

Nick Wilson, Jonathan Jarman, Osman Mansoor

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Transmission dynamics of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand: analyses of national and city data

Hiroshi Nishiura, Nick Wilson

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Interpretation of vitamin D status may be affected by alternative supplementation

Peter Elder, John Lewis, Richard King, Chris Florkowski

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Time to implement the polypill approach

Shaun Holt

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Permitting sex selection

Martin Wilkinson

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Obituaries

John Heywood Taylor

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Norman Derek Walker

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2010

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Book Reviews

Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine (D Gareth Jones & Maja I Whitaker)

Mark Stringer

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Law, Mind and Brain (Michael Freeman & Oliver R Goodeno, eds)

Warren Brookbanks

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