Alcohol and the Medical Community: A Cocktail for Exclusion.

Alcohol is a class 1 carcinogen, and its use, at any level, is not safe for health. Despite this, alcohol remains strongly mixed into medical culture and is often served free at medical-community events. This presents numerous ethical concerns.

An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project.

Objective: To systematically assess the Canadian federal government's current alcohol policies in relation to public health best practices.

Methods: The 2022 Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE) Project assessed federal alcohol policies across 10 domains. Policy domains were weighted according to evidence for their relative impact, including effectiveness and scope.

Local TV News Coverage of Racial Disparities in COVID-19 During the First Wave of the Pandemic, March-June 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted health and social outcomes for people of color in the United States. This study examined how local TV news stories attributed causes and solutions for COVID-19-related racial health and social disparities, and whether coverage of such disparities changed after George Floyd's murder, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We systematically validated keywords to extract relevant news content and conducted a content analysis of 169 discrete local TV news stories aired between March and June 2020 from 80 broadcast networks within 22 purposefully selected media markets.

Perceptions of Arguments in Support of Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption Among Low-Income White, Black and Latinx Parents of Young Children.

Purpose: To test for racial/ethnic differences in perceived argument strength in favor of structural interventions to curb childhood obesity among lower-income parents of young children.

Design: Cross-sectional, self-report.

Setting: Online research panel, national sample of 1485 US adults in Fall 2019.

[Dilatation enteroplasty for obstructive Crohn disease. Experience of the University of Montreal].

Multiple small bowel resections for obstructive symptoms caused by Crohn's disease can lead to a short bowel and malabsorption. Preservation of intestinal length is possible by the use of strictureplasty. Between August 1983 and March 1993, ninety strictureplasties were performed in 25 patients.

Toxic megacolon. An analysis of 70 cases.

The clinical features and outcome of 70 patients treated for toxic megacolon between 1970 and 1984 in five university-affiliated hospitals were determined. There were 35 women and 35 men with a mean age of 39 +/- 0.2 years.

[Seat belt syndrome: a new abdominal pathology].

Between January 1976 and December 1980, 43 patients involved in automobile accidents while wearing passive restraints were treated at l'Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur in Montreal. Thirty-seven showed signs of abdominal trauma and were operated upon. There was a strikingly high incidence of gastrointestinal injury.

Changing trends with abdominal injury in seatbelt wearers.

Seatbelts were incorporated as standard equipment for automobiles constructed in North America in 1964. The first seatbelt law was made mandatory in Canada as of 1 January 1971. Between January 1976 and January 1980 38 patients involved in automobile accidents while wearing passive restraints were treated at l'Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur: 32 of these 38 patients had signs and symptoms of abdominal injury.

Importance of the serum amylase level in patients with blunt abdominal trauma.

Possible intra-abdominal injuries were sought in 101 patients admitted with blunt abdominal trauma. The serum amylase level was measured in the first 12 hours after the accident. Twenty-five patients had hyperamylasemia; 18 underwent laparotomy and 7 were treated conservatively.

Resection and primary anastomosis for diverticulitis with perforation and peritonitis.

Primary resection is the treatment of choice for diverticulitis of the colon with perforation and generalized peritonitis. Although there has been controversy concerning the management of the bowel ends after resection, for the last 20 years immediate anastomosis has been gaining increasing support. Between 1970 and 1981, at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur in Montreal, 15 patients having diverticulitis with perforation and diffuse spreading peritonitis who fulfilled specific criteria were treated by primary resection of the perforated segment of bowel and immediate anastomosis.

Benign solid teratoma of the ovary with rupture into the rectum.

The authors present an unusual case of benign, solid, complex teratoma of the ovary with rupture into the rectum. A young woman, investigated for bowel problems, was found to have a prolapsing tumour in the upper rectum. A diagnosis of benign solid teratoma of the ovary was made by histologic examination of the surgical specimen; the tumour had perforated the rectal wall and protruded into the bowel lumen, a most unusual complication for this type of tumour.

Primary adenoid cystic carcinoma of the esophagus.

Primary adenoid cystic carcinoma or cylindroma of the esophagus is rare, only 22 cases having been reported previously. The histogenesis of this tumour is disputed, but it is believed to arise from the submucosal glands. A 75-year-old man with a cylindroma of the esophagus underwent radical excision of the tumour and has been clinically disease-free and asymptomatic since his operation in February 1979.

Teflon felt for closure of the pelvic floor after abdominoperineal excision of the rectum.

Teflon felt has been used in ten patients without complications or delay in healing, as a satisfactory means of closing a large gap in the peritoneal floor after abdominoperineal excision of the rectum. The technique is described.