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History of significant head injury in women prisoners linked with disability and past abuse
University of Glasgow
New research has found that 78 percent of women prisoners in Scotland have a history of significant head injury – most of which occurred in the context of domestic abuse that often lasted over periods of several years.
The University of Glasgow-led study – funded by the Scottish Government and published today in the Lancet Psychiatry – also found 66 percent of women prisoners had suffered repeat head injuries for many years. The majority of the study participants were from the most deprived population quintile.
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Homicides surge in california amid COVID shutdowns of schools, youth programs
Kaiser Health Network
Amid a pandemic that left law enforcement agencies stretched thin and forced shutdowns that left young men with little to do, California registered a devastating surge in homicides in 2020 that hit especially hard in Black and Latino communities.
The number of homicide victims in California jumped 27 percent from 2019 to 2020, to about 2,300, marking the largest year-over-year increase in three decades, according to preliminary death certificate data from the California Department of Public Health.
There were 5.8 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2020, the highest rate in California since 2008.
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Youths with diverse gender identities bullied up to three times more than peers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Medical Xpress
Young people with diverse gender identities may be bullied and victimized up to three times more often than peers who identify as male or female, a new study of more than 4,464 adolescents in Illinois found.
The students were part of a statewide survey of 8th- through 12th-grade youths in Illinois schools.
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Diplomats, donors concerned about sex abuse reports at WHO
Associated Press
British, European and American diplomats and donors have voiced serious concerns about how the World Health Organization handled sex abuse allegations involving its own staff during an outbreak of Ebola in Congo, as reported this week by The Associated Press.
On May 11, the AP published an investigation documenting that senior WHO management was informed of multiple sex abuse allegations involving at least two of its doctors during the epidemic in 2018.
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UNH research estimates 1.4 million children have yearly violence-related medical visits
University of New Hampshire
A national report from the University of New Hampshire shows close to one and a half million children each year visit a doctor, emergency room or medical facility as a result of an assault, abuse, crime or other form of violence. This is four times higher than previous estimates based only on data from U.S. emergency rooms for violence-related treatment.
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Johns Hopkins develops portable device for rapidly diagnosing STIs
Johns Hopkins University
A Johns Hopkins University-led team has created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone app to diagnose gonorrhea in less than 15 minutes and determine if a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics.
The invention improves on traditional testing in hospital laboratories and clinics, which typically takes up to a week to deliver results—time during which patients can unknowingly spread their infections. The team's results appear in Science Translational Medicine.
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Researchers reveal new tool to help prevent suicide
Swansea University via EurekAlert!
A team of Welsh academics has developed a new method of supporting health professionals to make clinical decisions about people who may be at risk of taking their own lives.
While the UK may have one of the lowest rates of suicide in the world, it is still the biggest cause of death in men under 45, so being able to make a Structured Professional Judgement about who might attempt suicide and knowing how to intervene is vitally important.
Researchers at Swansea and Cardiff universities have put together the Risk of Suicide Protocol which guides a professional to look at 20 aspects of a person's life known to be related to suicide. They can then formulate what the person's problems are and how they can be helped.
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