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Editorials

Contrast-induced nephropathy: does it really exist?

Tim M Buckenham

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Vector-borne disease prevention: the need for a joint South Pacific approach

José G B Derraik, David Slaney, Edwin R Nye, Philip Weinstein

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Original Articles

Temporal trends of acute nephrolithiasis in Auckland, New Zealand

Jason Du, Richard Johnston, Michael Rice

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Transient ischaemic attack services in New Zealand

Wallace J Brownlee, Lucy Fergus, Patricia Bennett, John Gommans, John Fink, P Alan Barber

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Hospital stay and early complication rates following joint replacement: is there any ethnic difference in New Zealand?

Pai Vasu, Vishal Pai, Sophie Wrighton

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Dietary supplement use in the prevention of age-related macular degeneration progression

Aparna Raniga, Mark J Elder

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Viewpoints

An evidence-based approach to minimise contrast-induced nephropathy

Tarek Darwish

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Frailty: dominos or deliberation?

Claire P Heppenstall, Tim J Wilkinson, H Carl Hanger, Sally Keeling

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Clinical Correspondence

Medical image. Duodenal Kaposi’s sarcoma

Amer A Alkhatib, Douglas G Adler

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

List of Members of the British Medical Association (New Zealand Branch) for 1909

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Proceedings

Proceedings the 198th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society: Thursday 2 July 2009

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Survival benefit confirmed for prostate cancers diagnosed by PSA testing

David S Lamb, Brett Delahunt, James Denham, David Slaney

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The use of placebos to mollify difficult patients: in their best interests?

Phillipa J Malpas

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Estimating the reproduction number of the novel influenza A virus (H1N1) in a Southern Hemisphere setting: preliminary estimate in New Zealand

Hiroshi Nishiura, Nick Wilson, Michael G Baker

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Socks on shoes for icy Dunedin streets is nothing new

Olive M Allen

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Mr Taine saved my arm

Yvonne Cunningham

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Obituaries

Robert Ross Manning

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David Henry Hamilton Pullon

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Book Review

Pericardial Diseases: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD (SJ Hutchinson)

Ian Crozier

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