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Editorials

Driveway accidents in New Zealand

Spencer Beasley

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Immunisation in hospital—an opportunity repeatedly missed

Elizabeth Wilson

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Influenza A(H1N1)09: another public health risk to New Zealand

Lance C Jennings

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Original Articles

Paediatric driveway run-over injuries: time to redesign?

Kai Hsun Hsiao, Clinton Newbury, Nita Bartlett, Rangi Dansey, Philip Morreau, James Hamill

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Opportunistic immunisation of paediatric inpatients at Rotorua Hospital: audit and discussion

Rowena Gilbert, Katharine Wrigley

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Preventing winter falls: a randomised controlled trial of a novel intervention

Lianne Parkin, Sheila M Williams, Patricia Priest

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Infant and perinatal outcomes of triplet pregnancy in Auckland: better than expected?

Malcolm Battin, Michelle Wise, Anne DeZoete, Peter Stone

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Pacific Islands Families: Child and Parental Physical Activity and Body Size—design and methodology

Melody Oliver, Philip J Schluter, Janis Paterson, Gregory S Kolt, Grant M Schofield

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Sudden unexpected infant death and bedsharing: referrals to the Wellington Coroner 1997–2006

Alistair Escott, Dawn E Elder, Jane M Zuccollo

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Review Article

Acute infective conjunctivitis: evidence review and management advice for New Zealand practitioners

Genevieve F Oliver, Graham A Wilson, Richard J Everts

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Clinical Correspondence

A case of beta lactam-induced visual hallucination

Victor Kong, Lutz Beckert, Charles Awunor-Renner

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Medical image. All that wheezes is not asthma

Shoaib Faruqi, Jack A Kastelik, Michael E Cowen, Simon P Hart

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Carbon monoxide poisoning on a motor launch: part 2

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Use of placebos by New Zealand doctors

Shaun Holt, Andrew Gilbey

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Response to letter from the NZ Council of Homeopaths

Shaun Holt, Andrew Gilbey

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New software for modelling impacts of regional nuclear war: relevance to New Zealand

Nick Wilson, Lyndon Burford, Andrew Winnington

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Obituaries

John Morrison Bird

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David Cargill Heaton

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Notice

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Book Reviews

The Elderly: legal and ethical issues in healthcare policy (Martin Lyon Levine, editor)

Mark Weatherall

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Political Correctness and the Surgeon

Philip Bagshaw

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