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Forbes
The expansion of Medicaid benefits has been linked to a reduction in child neglect in states that expanded such health coverage for poor Americans under the Affordable Care Act, new research indicates.
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Medpage Today
Youth suicide appears to be accelerating, particularly in males and teenage females, according to an analysis of CDC data.
In 2000, the suicide rate for teens in the age 15-19 age range was eight per 100,000, which remained stable through 2007 before increasing by an annual percentage change of 3.1 percent through 2014. During 2014-2017, however, suicides in this age group increased annually by 10 percent, reported Oren Miron, MA, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues.
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Medpage Today
Imagine, if you will, a nurse who is assigned to take care of 50 patients on a medical floor — by herself. Clearly, this is an impossible task. There are just too many patients for one nurse to adequately monitor. But this nurse gamely does her best. Now let's say that there is a bad outcome and an investigation. Even if the understaffing problem is recognized, it would be easy — and tempting — to scapegoat the nurse, especially if there was no intention of fixing the staffing problem. ("We can't afford to hire more nurses!") Instead, the scapegoated nurse would be replaced by a new nurse, who, once again, would be expected to care for 50 patients.
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Medical Xpress
Nursing facilities have failed to report thousands of serious cases of potential neglect and abuse of seniors on Medicare even though it's a federal requirement for them to do so, according to a watchdog report that calls for a new focus on protecting frail patients.
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Infection Control Today
Nurse practitioners are more likely to conduct HIV screenings if they feel that their colleagues support routine screenings, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. This comes in advance of National HIV Testing Day, taking place June 27.
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Georgia State University News Hub
Young men can successfully intervene in peer groups to prevent sexual violence against women if they appeal to a shared sense of morality, according to a study led by a Georgia State University psychology researcher.
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University of Bristol via EurekAlert!
Men who experience domestic violence and abuse face significant barriers to getting help and access to specialist support services, according to a study by researchers at the University of Bristol's Centre for Academic Primary Care and Centre for Gender and Violence Research, published in BMJ Open.
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The Conversation via Chicago Tribune
About 16 percent of older adults are victims of some form of mistreatment, and the number of reported cases of elder abuse is steadily increasing. Because of poor record-keeping, however, those of us who study elder abuse don't know if the trend reflects an actual increase, an increase because of growing numbers of older adults, or only an increase in reporting due to greater awareness.
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ABC News
The fridge walls are lined with canvas body bags carefully laid out on metal shelves.
There's enough room for 500 corpses — they can stay here for a while.
For the first time, the ABC has been given exclusive access inside the Forensic Medicine Unit in Australia's biggest, and newest, morgue in western Sydney.
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Wyoming News Exchange
Wyoming lawmakers are considering several different solutions to address the state’s growing prison population and have already allocated funding for prison treatment programs.
According to an April report from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, Wyoming’s incarceration rate increased by four percent in 2017 while the national rate declined.
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Wired
On a clear day, from the middle of a well-trafficked stretch of reinforced concrete that spans the Snoqualmie River in Washington state, you can make out the hulking, ice-covered flanks of Mount Rainier. Locals bring their dogs to the so-called High Bridge to swim on their lunch breaks; high school kids in oversized hoodies pick their way through the raspberry thickets looking for a shady spot to light up. There are no memorials, no plastic flowers, no signs to mark the occasion when, nearly 32 years ago, somebody dumped the body of a young man at the base of this bridge, half-wrapped in a powder-blue blanket, plastic cords still cutting into his neck, and a pack of Camel Lights shoved down his throat.
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ASHP
Nearly three-quarters of Americans are concerned about burnout among healthcare professionals, according to new survey data released by ASHP. The results follow a 2018 study in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy that found 53 percent of pharmacists self-reported a high degree of burnout caused by increasing stresses and demands.
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