[Psychological health of students and identification of persons at risk: avoidance of an exam as symptom of depression].

Objective: Our exploratory study concerning student psychological health was aimed at identifying possible subgroups of at-risk students within a college-student population.

Method: A total of 445 students answered four questionnaires (three standard psychometric instruments and an ad hoc questionnaire comprising 50 multiple-choice questions). We then searched for risk-groups by studying all answers obtained with the ad hoc questionnaire and looking for those answers that were significantly correlated with ratings of psychopathology.

Psychoactive drug use among medical doctors is higher than in the general population.

We surveyed a representative sample of practising physicians and a representative sample of subjects from the Swiss general population (SOMIPOPS Survey) concerning their annual use of sleeping pills and tranquillizers. 77% of the physicians (n = 466) and 72% of the general population (n = 4255) responded. After adjustment for age and sex 37.

[Eosinophilia and dormant parasitosis].

The exotic diseases are still far from a daily preoccupation and sometimes face the physician with unusual problems. Two classical situations are reported: eosinophilia of parasitic origin, and three examples of asymptomatic parasitosis. Eosinophilia is a classical sign accompanying multicellular parasites (helminths).

[Are physicians also sick? Results of a survey carried out in French-speaking Switzerland and Tessin].

The results are presented of a study among 466 physicians in French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland concerning their own health. It emerged that 77.7% of the physicians had had at least one disease during the year studied; in 50% of cases the morbidity was linked to stress and emotivity.

Pseudotumoral enterocolitis and massive eosinophilia.

We report a seven year history of a 23 year old woman born in the Antilles, with pseudotumoral enterocolitis and massive eosinophilia. In 1973 she developed a haemorrhagic colitis with massive peripheral eosinophilia of up to 60000/mm3. Medical treatment, mainly corticosteroids, failed to control the disease.