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Head injury 25 years later – Penn study finds increased risk of dementia
Penn Medicine News
Head injury in the United States is common, with over 23 million adults age 40 or older reporting a history of head injury with loss of consciousness. Many head injuries can be caused by a host of different situations – from car and motorcycle accidents to sports injuries. What’s more, it has become increasingly recognized that the effects from head injuries are long-lasting. New research led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that a single head injury could lead to dementia later in life. This risk further increases as the number of head injuries sustained by an individual increases. The findings also suggest stronger associations of head injury with risk of dementia among women compared to among men and among white as compared to among Black populations.
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To provide survivor-centered care, health workers in Pakistan learn to ask about gender-based violence with empathy
World Health Organization
Early in her career, Dr. Rukhsana Bashir, a clinician in Pakistan, was used to seeing women in her clinic with symptoms of pain, headaches, insomnia and depression. She would listen and treat each symptom, but the underlying causes went unnoticed.
She did not know that some of those women were experiencing gender-based violence – a pervasive health challenge throughout the country and world, and one she personally had experienced.
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Hospital-based violence intervention program engages vulnerable populations
Society for Avademic Emergency Medicine via EurekAlert!
A Boston violence intervention advocacy program is effectively engaging the client population that hospital-based violence intervention programs have been designed to support. This is the conclusion of a study titled "Boston Violence Intervention Advocacy Program: Challenges and Opportunities for Client Engagement and Goal Achievement," to be published in the March 2021 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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Prisons in Canada not keeping track of sexual assault allegations
Kitchener Today
A report by The Globe and Mail is shedding some light on sexual assaults taking place in Canadian prisons for women.
According to the report, Correctional Service of Canada does not keep track of employees accused of sexual assault by inmates.
The problem is also fueled by the failure to believe prisoners when they bring forward allegations.
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Hepatitis B virus uses host's DNA repair proteins to close circle of infection
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
To establish chronic disease, the hepatitis B virus must have its genome of relaxed circular DNA turned into covalently closed circular DNA. Exactly how rcDNA becomes cccDNA has been unclear, but new details about the transformation have been uncovered by Princeton University researchers. According to the Princeton team, the rcDNA genome, which contains four lesions, undergoes repair by five host proteins.
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Artificial intelligence calculates suicide attempt risk
Vanderbilt University Medical Center via Medical Xpress
A machine learning algorithm that predicts suicide attempts recently underwent a prospective trial at the institution where it was developed, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Over the 11 consecutive months concluding in April 2020, predictions ran silently in the background as adult patients were seen at VUMC. The algorithm, dubbed the Vanderbilt Suicide Attempt and Ideation Likelihood model, uses routine information from electronic health records to calculate 30-day risk of return visits for suicide attempt, and, by extension, suicidal ideation.
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Oldest documented site of indiscriminate mass killing
University of Wyoming via ScienceDaily
DNA, archaeological and skeletal evidence demonstrates an indiscriminate massacre and haphazard burial of 41 individuals from an early pastoralist community in what is now eastern Croatia 6,200 years ago.
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