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For children with a disability, a higher risk of trauma
U.S. News & World Report
Research released Jan. 26 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a larger share of children with disabilities between five and 17 years of age experienced stressful life events such as neighborhood violence or parental incarceration compared to children without a disability.
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AEquitas announces a new resource! Self-Collected Sexual Assault Kits: Assessing and Mitigating the Risks
This article focuses on self-collected sexual assault kits – sometimes known as "do-it-yourself" or "DIY" kits – that are self-administered post-assault and involve the collection and preservation of evidence from the body in a non-medical setting. It examines the rationale behind self-collected kits for victims of sexual violence who state that they want to address their trauma outside the healthcare and criminal justice systems; the challenges self-collected kits present for prosecutors; and the limitations of self-collected kits to provide critical victim care, treatment, and support traditionally provided through the sexual assault medical forensic exam (SAMFE) process. Read the full article.
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IAFN is accepting applications for a Forensic Nursing Specialist. This role provides forensic nurses and allied professionals with expert education and technical assistance through a variety of activities. The Specialist works to strengthen the quality of medical forensic care through the development and delivery of quality education and the dissemination of materials produced within IAFN and in collaboration with project partners. Submit your cover letter with salary requirements and resume to HR@ForensicNurses.org. Click here to learn more.
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Unemployment associated with increase in violence early in COVID-19 pandemic
UC Davis Health
The sharp rise in unemployment during the five months of the pandemic was associated with an increase in firearm violence and homicide in 16 American cities. That’s the finding of a new study from researchers at the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis.
The study was published in the Journal of Urban Health.
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Over one-third of young adult US men involved in technology-related abuse, study finds
M Health Lab
In 2022, technology has the potential to both start relationships and keep them alive, even those crossing continents. Lifting a finger, literally, can land someone “face-to-face” with their partner or spouse.
This increased accessibility – 81 percent of Americans own a smart phone and 75 percent own a computer – also allows for more unhealthy behaviors in relationships. Insults, harassment, nonstop messages about a partner’s whereabouts and accessing online accounts without permission can all be easily facilitated through technology.
A new study shows that one-quarter of young American men experience this technology-facilitated abuse – both by delivering and receiving it.
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Young sexual minority men and transgender women are at higher risk of transactional sex
Johns Hopkins Medicine
About a fifth of young sexual minority males and transgender females are estimated to be engaging in transactional, or survival sex, according to results of a new survey study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers. The findings, which define the practice as trading sex for money, housing and other necessities, were published in the February 2022 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health and first appeared online Jan. 16. The findings affirm that transactional sex may place young Black and Latinx gay or bisexual males and transgender females at risk for exposure to HIV.
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Hymen repair surgery and virginity testing to be banned in UK
BBC
The government is planning on banning a cosmetic surgery called hymenoplasty across the UK.
It attempts to recreate a woman's hymen, which in some cultures is linked to virginity, and has been described as a form of honor-based abuse.
The procedure will be criminalized, as will virginity testing.
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Biden administration releases new transgender federal prison policy
Government Executive
The Biden administration has restored guidelines requiring federal prisons to consider the safety of transgender people when deciding where to house them, a policy the Trump administration rescinded in 2018.
The Bureau of Prisons has reissued its Transgender Offender Manual, which once again includes the Obama-era policy, Kristie Breshears, chief of public affairs for the agency, confirmed in a statement to The 19th. Under Trump, transgender people in federal prisons were housed based on sex assigned at birth alone. Biden’s policy builds off the Obama-era guidance and goes a step further, requiring prison staff to use a transgender person’s lived name and pronouns.
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94% of nurses say there's racism in healthcare: Survey
Medscape
Ninety-four percent of nurses report that there's either "a lot" or "some" racism in their profession, according to a new survey.
The primary area where racism is experienced by nurses is in their career paths. Incivility and bullying and interactions with colleagues are other acts associated with racism, reports the survey of more than 5,600 nurses.
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Study finds blunted cortisol profiles in women who experienced childhood sexual abuse
News-Medical
Childhood sexual abuse can lead to depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease and other health problems later in life. Not all abused children experience these problems, however, and researchers are working to understand whose health is affected and why.
In a new article in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, a team of researchers led by faculty in Penn State's College of Health and Human Development examined how the production of the stress hormone cortisol differs from childhood to middle age for some women who experienced childhood sexual abuse.
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Study identifies new way to attack herpesviruses
American Society for Microbiology
A new study published this week in mBio, an open access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, has opened the door to a new approach to attacking herpesviruses. The study demonstrated that targeting two metal ion-dependent enzymes of human herpesviruses with two compounds, AK-157 and AK-166, can inhibit the replication of the virus. The finding provides new opportunities to developing agents against herpesviruses.
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Post-mortem interval of human skeletal remains accurately determined by means of non-destructive techniques
Science Magazine
In the field of forensic analysis there is a significant demand for objectively determining the post-mortem interval when human skeletal remains are discovered. So far, a whole range of techniques have been used to establish the approximate time that has elapsed since the death of the individual, but they have significant drawbacks in terms of reliability and accuracy: they provide an approximate interval but not an exact date; they are relatively invasive techniques, which require staining or removal of a part of the bone, etc.
“The aim of this research was precisely to come up with a method capable of determining the relatively accurate post-mortem interval in human remains by using non-destructive measurements,” said Luis Bartolomé, technician in the UPV/EHU’s SGIker Central Analysis Service.
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