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Improving bruise detection with alternate light
National Institute of Justice
With support from the National Institute of Justice, Researcher Katherine Scafide, Ph.D. and colleagues investigated whether or not an alternate light source is more useful for detecting and visualizing bruises than standard white light. They reported that they were five times more likely to detect a bruise on study participants with an alternate light source than with white light.
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.FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES
Speak up. Speak out. Join us
Join the International Association of Forensic Nurses in Washington, DC, (or virtually) for our annual Advocacy Day. This free, members-only training is included as a perk of membership! Come network with other forensic nurses, build your leadership skills, meet your Congressional representatives, and influence decisions that impact the future of forensic nursing. Help us make history as we work toward our goal of having a forensic nurse in every emergency department! Register today!
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Become SANE Certified
2022 is the perfect time for you to take the professional leap forward and get SANE certified! Apply by February 3 to sit for the April exam. Apply now.
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NEW! A Tale of Two Cases
This webinar will compare and contrast the experiences of two sexual assault patients, one who had the benefit of a trained forensic nurse examiner and one who did not. The differences in options for care of each patient will be discussed and how their experiences impacted their overall outcomes. Learn More.
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Help Asylum Seekers Prove Trauma with A Medical Forensic Evaluation
Join IAFN for a 4-part, webinar series on the Medical-Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers. This series is free for members and will offer contact hours for each webinar. Learn more.
- Legal Framework for Immigrant Victims & Introduction to the Istanbul Protocol
- The Clinical Interview & Considerations for Vulnerable Populations
- Physical Exam & Utilizing the Istanbul Protocol
- The Evaluation of Women Asylum Seekers
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
A sobering look at children and gun violence in the United States
Contemporary Pediatrics
Gun violence is an ongoing epidemic in the United States. Firearms-related deaths are the second leading cause of death among children and young adults, with nearly a quarter of all deaths among people aged 15 to 24 years resulting from firearms. Ninety-one percent of firearm deaths around the world in children aged 0 to 14 years occur in the United States. The risk of death linked to unintentional injury is higher in counties with a higher level of poverty. An investigation examines whether living in a county with a higher poverty concentration was linked to a child or teenager’s risk of death related to a firearm.
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The Philippines is raising the age of consent. That may not be enough to protect its children
TIME Magazine
For decades, predatory adults in the Philippines have had a green light to exploit the inability of children to properly understand consent—and children involved in cases of sexual abuse are often doubly traumatized as lawyers seek to establish whether or not consent was given. Says Senator Risa Hontiveros: “They’ve been asked questions like, ‘Did you enjoy it? Did you feel pleasure?’” in a bid to prove that they were willing participants.
But at long last, change might be coming. The senator is the co-author of a historic amendment that raises the age of consent to 16. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has meanwhile signed a bill banning child marriage, and a law to ban online sexual exploitation is also underway. However, advocates are far from satisfied.
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InvestiDate: A video game empowering Black teens to prioritize their health
Yale School of Medicine
Damien is knowledgeable about sexually transmitted infections, open to serious conversations about sex, has questionable taste in music, and won’t stop talking about his ex.
Is this someone you might want to date?
This is the type of question aimed at the players of InvestiDate, a video game designed through peer-reviewed studies and the recommendations of Black female adolescents who have provided guidance to the researchers. It is just one question within the video game designed to help navigate the challenges of dating and, if sexually active, while remaining protected against STIs, including HIV/AIDS.
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Live fish brain study reveals surprises about where and how memories form
New Atlas
Scientists at the University of Southern California have managed to image the formation of memories inside the brains of live fish in real time. And the results were intriguing – synapses were seen forming in one part of the brain while disappearing from another, in contrast to just strengthening as previously thought.
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DNA in unlikely places helps piece together ancient humans' family trees
Discover Magazine
One hundred thousand years ago, Neanderthals gathered in a cave perched 3,000 feet up in present-day Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains. While cooking and watching youngsters wrestle, they littered the floor with DNA in shed skin, spit and other bodily debris.
Dirt accumulated and protected the genetic material for millennia, even as humans and animals sheltered there. At the site, known as Estatuas, archaeologists have uncovered abundant stone tools and animal bones since 2008. The sole Neanderthal bone found — a toe tip with Swiss cheese consistency — seemed too precious to crush for DNA analysis. The scientists therefore couldn’t elucidate the inhabitants’ genetic traits and ties with other Neanderthal clans. Instead, they searched the dirt for loose DNA. In 2018, researchers dropped into pits at Estatuas and collected sediment from layers that formed between 70,000 and 113,000 years ago. They had fetched nearly 800 sediment samples in 2017 from the Chagyrskaya and Denisova caves in southern Siberia, promising locations that had already yielded DNA-bearing fossils of Neanderthals and their Denisovan relatives.
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