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Victims of violence and abuse require complex care from health professionals who possess expertise in providing trauma-informed, evidence-based, medically and legally sound care and treatment.
People who experience intimate partner violence, child and elder maltreatment, strangulation, human trafficking, and sexual violence often face substantial short- and long-term health and legal consequences. Forensic nurses are poised to meet these patients’ needs.
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The International Association of Forensic Nurses Nominating Committee is accepting applications from regular members for the following open positions on the Board of Directors, Nominating Committee, and Commission for Forensic Nursing Certification. Apply by July 31, 2019.
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Newsweek
A new report shines a light on the physical and psychological trauma that many Central American children arriving at the U.S. border from Northern Triangle countries have fled — and could once again face if they are forced to return.
In an analysis of more than 180 physical and psychological evaluations of children seeking asylum in the United States, of which 89 percent were from Northern Triangle countries El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights found that nearly 80 percent reported having "survived direct physical violence."
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Medpage Today
Amid growing concern about antimicrobial resistance, researchers have identified a potential alternative to current first-line antibiotic therapy for genital gonorrhea.
Results from G-ToG, the first randomized trial to compare gentamicin with the current first-line option ceftriaxone, showed that gentamicin 240 mg was almost as effective as ceftriaxone 500 mg for clearing genital gonorrhea.
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Roll Call
Advocates of taking the decision for prosecuting military sexual assaults — a persistent problem within the ranks — outside the chain of command scored a significant victory when the House Armed Services Committee approved a pilot program that would do just that at the service academies.
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology via Medical Xpress
We usually think that trauma from war is related to the fact that soldiers have been under constant threat of death. New research shows a slightly different picture.
The types of trauma that Norwegian soldiers were exposed to in Afghanistan greatly affected the psychological aftermath of their experiences.
Psychologist Andreas Espetvedt Nordstrand and his research team have looked at how exposure to different types of traumatic experiences influenced Norwegian veterans who were in Afghanistan.
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CBC
The Northwest Territories government is inching closer to a mechanism for people to report sexual assault without going directly to police: third-party reporting.
"Right now survivors of sexual assault have two options available to them. They can either report to police or not report," said Leanne Gardiner, director of community justice and policing with the N.W.T. Department of Justice.
RCMP and the territorial government met with health and victim services staff from across the territory, as well as women's shelters, youth organizations and LGBTQ2S advocacy groups.
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Fox News
The United States is again ranked as one of the worst countries in the world for human trafficking. According to a recently released report by the State Department, the top three nations of origin for victims of human trafficking in 2018 were the United States, Mexico and the Philippines.
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Contemporary Pediatrics
Intimate partner violence can occur at any age, with seven percent of teenaged homicides perpetuated by intimate partners and mostly against female victims.
The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, reveals just how serious a problem intimate partner violence against teenagers has become. According to the report, a multistate study of more than 2000 homicides involving 11- to 18-year-olds reveals that 150 of those homicides were carried out by an intimate partner of the victim.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory via PhysOrg
Any single hair from anywhere on the human body can be used to identify a person.
This conclusion is one of the key findings from a nearly year-long study by a team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Forensic Science Center and Michigan State University.
The team's study, published in Scientific Reports, could provide an important new avenue of evidence for law enforcement authorities in sexual assault cases.
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CNN
The suicide rate in the United States continues to climb, with a rate in 2017 that was 33 percent higher than in 1999, new research finds.
Suicide rates among people 15 to 64 increased significantly during that period, rising from 10.5 per 100,000 people in 1999 to 14 per 100,000 in 2017, the most recent year with available data, according to annual research published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
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Quartz
For years, scientists have been trying to figure out how to break the remarkably robust connection between adversity early in life and bad outcomes later on—poor health, incarceration, dropping out of school, violence. A major pathway through which adversity can cause harm is stress. For some children, the wear and tear of stress on their tiny, fast-changing bodies can become toxic, impairing critical cognitive and emotional foundations. Other children who face similarly hard circumstances will show relative resilience. At present, it is virtually impossible to know which children are most affected by stress and adversity, and thus, which ones are in the most danger.
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National Institutes of Health via Medical Xpress
Acceptance and support from communities and families appear to lessen the toll of mental health conditions experienced by former child soldiers transitioning to early adulthood, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The study appears in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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ABC News
Birth control that has been tampered with, emotional blackmail and coercing a woman into sex are all forms of reproductive coercion — an experience victims of domestic violence are also likely to be enduring, according to a recent study.
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