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Novel study predicts depression and PTSD risk after trauma
Neuroscience News
Patients physically recovering from traumatic injury are at risk for experiencing psychological distress, particularly depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Early identification of depression and PTSD risk while under the care of the trauma service is essential to supporting the comprehensive recovery of injured patients.
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The Editors of the Journal of Forensic Nursing (JFN) invite interested colleagues to join the Peer Review Panel of the Editorial Board. JFN is a quarterly, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to advancing the science of forensic nursing by enhancing the knowledge of clinicians, educators, administrators, and researchers. The objective of the JFN is to publish scholarly manuscripts and expand empirical evidence based on the global practice of forensic nursing. Learn More.
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San Francisco cops have been using rape kits to arrest victims, DA says
Huffington Post
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said Feb. 14 that his office has recently learned that the city’s police force has been using DNA taken from sexual assault victims to link them to crimes, potentially discouraging people who’ve been raped from coming forward.
Boudin, who revealed details of his findings in an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle, said his office became aware of the practice last week when the San Francisco Police Department used DNA it had collected from a woman years ago as part of a rape exam in order to connect her to a recent felony property crime. “Public safety demands that we support sexual assault survivors and end any practices that dissuade them from coming forward,” Boudin tweeted.
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Four years after Parkland, gunfire on school grounds reaches troubling new peaks
USA Today
Four years after the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, the number of shootings on school grounds is reaching troubling new peaks, according to data from two groups that track the shootings. There were at least 136 instances of gunfire on school grounds between Aug. 1 and Dec. 31, according to a report Feb. 11 from the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. The figure is nearly four times the average for that period since Everytown began tracking gunfire on school grounds in 2013.
The shootings killed 26 people and wounded 96, marking the most recorded instances of gunfire and people shot in the five-month period since 2013, according to the report.
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Murkowski and colleagues introduce bipartisan bill to reauthorize Violence Against Women Act
Lisa Murkowski
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, alongside U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Joni Ernst, and Dick Durbin, introduced the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022. This bipartisan legislation reauthorizes the VAWA federal grant programs through 2027 and modernizes the almost three-decade old law. This legislation will help prevent violence, support survivors, and hold perpetrators accountable for their violent actions. It includes key provisions to enhance tools to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking while improving access to essential support services such as healthcare and safe housing for all victims.
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Trauma centers expand care to treat patients beyond physical injury
American College of Surgeons via Newswise
Most patients who show signs of alcohol or opioid/stimulant drug use associated with injury now undergo screening and/or intervention in Level I and II trauma centers, according to national survey results. Screenings and interventions are also conducted for some trauma patients who show signs of depression, suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress disorder, and exposure to firearm violence, which can lead to PTSD, although some of these mental health conditions are not screened for as consistently.
Alcohol and drug use problems and other mental health disorders are “endemic among patients admitted to U.S. trauma centers,”*note study authors in an article in press published online in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
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A genetic database to identify missing persons in El Salvador
Science Magazine
El Salvador, like other Central American countries, has suffered repression and human rights violations ever since colonial times. Indeed, social injustice in the country persisted and was a major trigger of the 1980-1992 armed conflict. A team of researchers from the Genomics Service at UPF and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, a joint center of the CSIC and UPF, has developed a genetic database of 400 Salvadoran individuals that will constitute a most powerful tool to more accurately identify the remains of missing persons in El Salvador and along the migrant route. The research has been published in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics.
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WVU researcher examines interstate characteristics associated with self-injury mortality
WVU Today
West Virginia leads the nation in overdose deaths, but distinguishing intentional overdoses from accidental ones is far from straightforward.
To shed light on the matter, Ian Rockett—a professor emeritus of the West Virginia University School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics—led a national study to examine interstate characteristics associated with high rates of self-injury mortality.
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Childhood adversity is a 'cause of causes' of adult illnesses and mental health problems
The Conversation
Every day we are exposed to things like pollution and ultraviolet light which increase our risk of illness. Many people take on additional risks — due to tobacco smoke, fast food or alcohol, for example.
But there is a less-recognized exposure that is even more common than smoking and increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic lung diseases, sexually transmitted infections, chronic pain, mental illness and reduces one’s life by as much as 20 years.
This public health hazard that hides in plain sight is childhood adversity: experiences like physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect.
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DNA testing of elephant ivory reveals tactics of criminal networks
Evening Standard
Scientists have used DNA testing of ivory to uncover the international criminal networks behind the trafficking of the product out of Africa.
Experts say the genetic connections they found indicate a higher degree of organization among ivory-smuggling networks than previously known.
It is hoped that exposing the connections between separate ivory seizures – sometimes made thousands of miles apart – will boost evidence against the criminals arrested for elephant poaching and ivory smuggling.
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Age of natural menopause linked with intergenerational violence exposures
The North American Menopause Society via Medical Xpress
Research on women's violence exposure is timely as the COVID pandemic has elevated rates of intimate partner violence and child abuse. A new study shows that a woman's collective violence exposure—consisting of her own abuse and that of her child—speeds up reproductive aging to result in an earlier age of menopause. Study results are published online today in Menopause.
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