Sexual Harassment of Canadian Medical Students: A National Survey.

Background: Despite explicit policies and reporting mechanisms in academia designed to prevent harassment and ensure respectful environments, sexual harassment persists. We report on a national survey of Canadian medical students' experiences of sexual harassment perpetrated by faculty, patients and peers, their responses to harassment, and their suggestions for improving the learning environment.

Methods: With ethics approval from all 17 Canadian universities with medical schools, an invitation to participate in an anonymous, electronic survey was included in three Canadian Federation of Medical Students' newsletters (2016).

Acute and chronic pulmonary function changes in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.

Pulmonary functions of patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis were studied during an acute episode (n = 6); during a mean follow-up period of 44 months (range four months--14.8 years) (n = 16); and for any correlation between duration of ABPA and asthma with the total lung capacity (helium dilution), 1 second forced expiratory volume (FEV1), vital capacity, 1 second forced expiratory volume-forced vital capacity ratio (FEV1:FVC per cent) and diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide (DL:CO) (single breath) for the entire group (n = 22). All patients were treated with corticosteroids (intermittent or continuous) and bronchodilators.

Nylon stocking dermatitis. An unusual example.

We report herein a woman sensitive to nylon stockings of only brown or tan shade. Her situation is interesting for several reasons: she does not react to paraphenylediamine and she reacts to red and yellow dyes, but not to blue or the finish; however, when finish is applied to dyed blanks (red, yellow, or blue) she reacts vigorously to all three. We suspect the finish reacts with the dyes to either expose or produce an antigen previously not available to the skin.

Dermatophagoides farinae antigen skin test sensitivity in Wisconsin.

Fifty consecutive patients with allergic asthma and/or rhinitis in Madison. Wisconsin, were tested intradermally with a house dust extract (1:100) and with a Dermatophagoides farinae antigen (1:2000). The close relationship between the two skin test results (mite and house dust) suggests that both contain the same cross-reacting antigens and that mites make a major contribution to the antigens in house dust in Wisconsin.

Terbutaline's effects on the allergy skin test.

Beta adrenergic agents are known to inhibit mediator release from skin and lung mast cells in vitro and isoproterenol and epinephrine are known to impair the immediate allergic skin test reaction. We undertook to investigate the effects of aqueous and oral terbutaline on the allergy skin tests. We particularly wished to analyze the impact of terbutaline on the late allergic reaction, but we found that terbutaline mixed with ragweed antigen does not affect either the immediate or late skin test reaction.

Aerosol beclomethasone treatment of chronic severe asthma. A one-year experience.

After one year's use of beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol, 43 of 61 asthmatic patients who were originally dependent on oral corticosteroids were able to reduce and 38 to completely eliminate use of oral corticosteroids. Most patients maintained or improved their pulmonary functions. Exacerbation of rhinitis during oral corticosteroid withdrawal and emergence of nasal polyps were problems for 25 patients.

Relationships between prednisone therapy, disease activity, and the total serum IgE level in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is an unusual syndrome caused by hypersensitivity to Aspergillus spores growing in the bronchii. Previous investigators have suggested that the IgE levels and precipitating antibodies may vary according to disease activity. We have been able to closely follow 12 out of a group of 40 ABPA patients with IgE and serum precipitating antibody measurements.

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in infants.

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA), a serious complication of asthma, is thought to rarely afflict infants. We report three children less than 2 years of age in whom this disorder developed. The major criteria for the diagnosis include: (1) asthma, (2) recurrent pulmonary infiltrations with peripheral eosinophilia, (3) positive aspergillus skin tests at 15 minutes and at 4 to 6 hours, (4) serum precipitating antibodies to aspergillus, and (5) elevated serum IgE levels.