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HealthDay Reporter via Medical Xpress
Children treated in America's emergency rooms for mental health disorders jumped 60 percent over a recent decade, a new study finds. Between 2007 and 2016, visits for self-harm like suicidal thoughts and cutting soared 329 percent and treatment for drug abuse rose 159 percent, according to the study led by Charmaine Lo, from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
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The Atlantic
When lockdown and shelter-in-place protocols aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 went into effect earlier this spring, they put many Americans into circumstances they previously could only have imagined. While for many families the situation has meant isolation and monotony, for those who live with their abusers it has been a nightmare. Under coronavirus social-distancing protocols, the worst-case scenario for people who live with an abuser has more or less materialized. Social workers, lawyers, and advocates have had to rapidly adjust their services in order to get help to domestic- and child-abuse victims who are trapped inside with their abusers.
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BBC News
Sudan has criminalized carrying out female genital mutilation, making it punishable by three years in jail.
Some 87 percent of Sudanese women aged between 14 and 49 have undergone some form of FGM, according to the UN.
In Sudan it is common for women to get the inner and outer labia, and usually the clitoris, removed.
FGM can result in urinary tract infections, uterine infections, kidney infections, cysts, reproductive issues and pain during sex.
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Widespread media reports have highlighted the concerning rise in domestic violence because of lockdown. Much of these reports have focused on the impact on women and children. However, many older adult victims of domestic violence are also at significant risk during the pandemic.
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Queen Mary University of London via Medical Xpress
A training program that teaches GPs how to identify domestic violence and abuse victims has led to a 30-fold increase in DVA referrals, according to a collaborative study of 205 general practices led by Queen Mary University of London, in partnership with the Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol Medical School.
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HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
Many sexually active men who have sex with men do not receive recommended prevention services and sexually transmitted disease testing when receiving care for HIV infection, according to a research letter published online May 5 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Medical Xpress
Adults who had rough childhoods have higher odds for heart disease.
That's the conclusion from a look at more than 3,600 people who were followed from the mid-1980s through 2018. Researchers found that those who experienced the most trauma, abuse, neglect and family dysfunction in childhood were 50 percent more likely to have had a heart attack, stroke or other heart problem in their 50s and 60s.
The Northwestern University study, published recently in the Journal of the American Heart Association, is the first to examine how childhood family environment affects heart disease risk in older middle age.
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The Guardian
Lucas da Silva* sits in a cell while he waits to hear from the court what will happen to him.
The 33-year-old is not in a prison, but at Casa da Mulher Brasileira, a centre for survivors of violence in Campo Grande, central Brazil, that is open 24/7.
Men can be detained here for up to 48 hours after arrest while the court decides what measures, such as restraining orders, are necessary. There are two cells; each can hold four men.
In the same building is an all-female team of police officers who specialize in violence against women, a specialist team from the department of justice, family court representatives, a community patrol assisting women at risk, social workers, psychologists, a creche and temporary accommodation with a kitchen.
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NPR
Jeffery Gerritt, editor of the Palestine Herald-Press in East Texas, hadn't planned on writing a series about inmates who were dying in county jails.
But he thought the death of a woman in jail, and the local authorities' silence on the matter, was worth pointing out to his town of about 19,000 residents.
"Her name was Rhonda Newsome," Gerritt told NPR. "And the local sheriff would not give me any information about her. In fact, on one of the very few phone conversations I had with him when I first got here, he told me a death in the jail is not news."
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University of Exter via PhysOrg
Medieval arrows caused injuries similar to today's gunshot wounds, according to archaeologists analyzing newly discovered human remains. The bones, recovered from a Dominican friary in Exeter, show arrows fired from longbows could penetrate right through the human skull, creating small entry and large exit wounds.
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