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Kaiser Health News
On an early March day at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergency room at the University of Chicago Medical Center teemed with patients.
But many weren’t there because of the coronavirus. They were there because they’d been shot.
Gunshot victims account for most of the 2,600 adult trauma patients a year who come to this hospital on the city’s sprawling South Side. And the pandemic hasn’t dampened the flow. “The visible virus of violence continues unabated,” said trauma chief Dr. Selwyn Rogers Jr.
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The 2020 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice has moved online. Registration will open July 20 and sessions will begin September 23. We will keep you informed as details are finalized. We hope to "see" you online!
Members are invited to join IAFN at our weekly office hours to discuss forensic nursing practice, policy, and procedure impacted by COVID-19. Register to join us for an upcoming session on May 28.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Human traffickers will profit from rising nationalism fuelled by the coronavirus pandemic, the new United Nations expert on modern slavery said, warning that anti-migrant policies and rhetoric may prevent victims of exploitation from seeking help.
Lockdowns and business closures worldwide are pushing many vulnerable workers - particularly migrant laborers - into precarious jobs and slave labor, according to Tomoya Obokata, the U.N. special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery.
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University of Birmingham via Medical Xpress
Forced migrant survivors of sexual and gender-based violence face increasingly serious problems—some life-threatening—as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and associated restrictions, a new study reveals. Researchers found COVID-19's impact on these people—largely women—and organizations supporting them in the UK, Turkey, Tunisia, Sweden and Australia creates difficulties in daily life that also increase their vulnerability to further abuse and exploitation.
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JD Supra
An article published in April, 2020 by the American College of Emergency Physicians reports on evidence that underdiagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury “is a pervasive problem in the emergency setting,” and that even patients who receive a diagnosis are unlikely to receive appropriate discharge education and are therefore at risk of missing opportunities for treatment, referral and improvement in outcomes.
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WYFF-TV
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed a bill into law that requires SLED to create a system to track sexual assault evidence from the time it is collected until the time it is tested.
Advocates for the bill at Greenville’s Julie Valentine Center received notice May 14 the governor had signed the legislation.
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King's College London via Medical Xpress
Personal accounts of childhood maltreatment show a stronger association with psychiatric problems compared to legal proof that maltreatment occurred, according to a new study co-written by a King's College London researcher.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Somalia's coronavirus lockdown has led to a huge increase in female genital mutilation, with circumcisers going door to door offering to cut girls stuck at home during the pandemic, a charity said on May 18.
Plan International said the crisis was undermining efforts to eradicate the practice in Somalia, which has the world's highest FGM rate, with about 98 percent of women having been cut.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Fears of increased domestic violence during Iraq's coronavirus lockdown will spur the new government to push through long-stalled legislation to protect victims, the head of the cabinet's women's rights department said on May 18.
Campaigners and U.N. agencies have stepped up demands for the law to be passed following the highly publicised case of Malak Al-Zubaidi, who died from being set alight last month after an alleged attack by her husband. It is not clear if she was murdered, or if she set herself on fire.
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Becker's Hospital Review
As the pandemic rages on, the nurse community is at the forefront of the crisis, putting their physical and mental health at risk.
Here, 27 nurses share advice on how they protect themselves against burnout and handle stress during this unprecedented public health crisis.
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University of Cambridge
Researchers have developed an AI algorithm that can detect and identify different types of brain injuries.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, have clinically validated and tested the AI on large sets of CT scans and found that it was successfully able to detect, segment, quantify and differentiate different types of brain lesions.
Their results, reported in The Lancet Digital Health, could be useful in large-scale research studies, for developing more personalized treatments for head injuries and, with further validation, could be useful in certain clinical scenarios, such as those where radiological expertise is at a premium.
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