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CBC
Stepping off the grounds of their high school, those with cellphones out, filming, knew what was about to happen. But the Grade 9 student in Windsor, Ont., in his first days of a new school year, did not.
It happened quickly on Sept. 12 of last year. An older boy approached Jayden Trudell, 15, from behind and blind-sided him with a hard punch to the head.
Jayden was then picked up and dropped, his head slammed into the pavement. As the video shows, he did not move. Yet the assault continued, with kicks and punches.
"His neck was bent in a weird way, so I thought he was dead," his cousin, Jaxson Da Silva-Trudell, recalled of the attack. "I thought Jayden died right then and there."
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H.R. 728, the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019 has unanimously passed the U.S. House. The U.S. Senate is scheduled to markup their version of the bill on Thursday, October 31.
For over 50 years, Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs have consistently and continually built the supply and distribution of highly educated nurses by strengthening nursing education at all levels. Title VIII programs provide grants, loans, and scholarships to help prepare the next generation of nurses and ensure that we have a qualified and diverse set of providers. The bills currently moving through the House and Senate would reauthorize the programs through Fiscal Year 2024.
Duquesne University School of Education
The forensic nursing community has long known that the lack of expert Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) throughout the country has been a major barrier regarding attempts to increase the number of SANEs. Many nurses complete the didactic SANE course, but then find it difficult to identify an expert SANE in their clinical area who can then mentor them through their first exams with a patient who has been sexually assaulted. The mentor would then be available to them to answer their questions as they begin to accumulate their required hours and expertise in order to sit for the certification exam. For those nurses who do not have a SANE mentor where they work, there are clinical courses that are sometimes offered at a site where the nurse can attend a 2-3 day hands on experience in order to learn how to conduct an exam.
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TIME Magazine
The suicidal thoughts started when Kristina Mossgraber was 17. A loud voice in her head told her that she was a bad person, a failure, better off dead. She cut herself in secret and told no one about the thoughts slamming around her brain, except her pediatrician, who dismissed them as normal teen angst. But her suicidal thoughts and behaviors didn’t stop. “I was so good at hiding it and kind of normalizing it.” She remembers thinking, “I just need to keep these to myself.”
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NBC News
In April 2018, California authorities revealed that they’d used a novel investigative technique to arrest a man they called the Golden State Killer, a serial murderer who’d escaped capture for decades.
For the first time, police had submitted DNA from a crime scene into a consumer DNA database, where information about distant relatives helped them identify a suspect.
The announcement kindled a revolution in forensics that has since helped solve more than 50 rapes and homicides in 29 states.
But earlier this year, that online database changed its privacy policy to restrict law enforcement searches, and since then, these cold cases have become much harder to crack.
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Gladstone Institutes via Medical Xpress
A team of Gladstone scientists and their partners at Xyphos Biosciences, Inc. describe a new way of attacking cells infected by HIV in this week's issue of the journal Cell. The work showcases a novel version of CAR-T, the technology known for its recent successes in fighting blood cancers. With improvements lending it greater breadth of coverage and versatility, the new technology, called convertibleCAR, shows great promise in several therapeutic areas, particularly in the fight against HIV, as it could be used to shrink the reservoir of infected cells that persists in patients under antiretroviral therapy.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison via Medical Xpress
The demands on a healthcare professional can quickly pile up.
Even after visiting patients, performing the necessary care and updating electronic health records, there's administrative work to provide documentation for insurers and public payers and to fulfill regulatory requirements. Long shifts are the norm.
So it's no surprise that various studies have shown the rate of doctors and nurses who exhibit significant symptoms of burnout is between 35 and 54 percent, with medical students and residents polling higher still. And, not surprisingly, clinician burnout correlates with a higher risk of medical errors and negative interactions with patients.
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The BMJ
Girls in Wales who have self harmed are significantly more likely than boys to be admitted to the hospital after turning up for emergency care, finds the first study of its kind, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
This gender disparity is particularly evident among 10-15 year olds who have deliberately harmed themselves, the findings indicate.
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CBS Evening News
Across the country, police and prosecutors are using a term called "exceptional clearance" to close rape cases and mark them as resolved, even when there's DNA evidence that could link a suspect to an attack. Now, women in Austin, TX are fighting back against a system they say has failed them.
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HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
Human papillomavirus DNA is detected in the oral cavities of about 6.2 percent of sexually active female adolescents, according to a study published online Oct. 25 in JAMA Network Open.
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