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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
The number of syphilis cases has been consistently going up across Europe since 2010, mostly affecting men who have sex with men living in urban areas. In 2017, notification rates reached an all-time high in the EU/EEA countries with more than 33,000 reported cases. An in-depth ECDC study describes the factors behind this increase and outlines the evidence-based options for public health control of syphilis, including case finding and management as well as educational activities.
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The International Association of Forensic Nurses Nominating Committee is accepting applications for the following open positions on the Board of Directors, Nominating Committee, and Commission for Forensic Nursing Certification. Apply by July 31, 2019.
- President-Elect
- Secretary
- Director at Large (3 positions available)
- Nominating Committee Member
- CFNC Certificant Commissioner
- CFNC Association Member Commissioner
IAFN is seeking a Continuing Education Manager to lead our ANCC approvership and providership programs.
Join IAFN and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center on Thursday, August 8, 2019 in Columbus, OH. This FREE, 1-day training covers how to recognize, identify, screen, and respond to human trafficking in a trauma-informed way. The training is intended for SANE, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners (SAFE), or forensic nurse examiners or other health care providers who work with trafficking patients. Space is limited to 80 participants and limited travel scholarships are available. Learn more.
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The Atlantic
Robert Spada walked into the decrepit warehouse in Detroit and surveyed the chaos: Thousands of cardboard boxes and large plastic bags were piled haphazardly throughout the cavernous space. The air inside was hot and musty. Spada, an assistant prosecutor, saw that some of the windows were open, others broken, exposing the room to the summer heat. Above the boxes, birds glided in slow, swooping circles.
It was Aug. 17, 2009, and this brick fortress of a building housed evidence that had been collected by the Detroit Police Department. Spada’s visit had been prompted by a question: Why were police sometimes unable to locate crucial evidence?
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The Conversation via PhysOrg
Multiple studies have warned about the reliability of voice evidence in criminal cases. For example, one recent study concluded that the way such evidence is used in trials is inconsistent with scientific research and needs to be revised.
Other studies have found that while there are a number of legal requirements around the use of eyewitness testimonies in trials, voice identification testimony has not been sufficiently scrutinized.
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Reuters via Business Insider
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera signed into law on July 11 a bill to remove the statute of limitations on sex crimes involving children amid a sex abuse crisis that has rocked the country's Catholic Church and claimed more than 200 victims.
The law, which first was proposed in 2010, ends impunity in cases that would have previously had a statute of limitations that varied between five and 10 years, depending on the nature of the crime. The new law is not retroactive.
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Society for Academic Emergency Medicine via Medical Xpress
Pediatric emergency medicine physicians are at risk for developing compassion fatigue, burnout, and low compassion satisfaction, but proactive awareness of these phenomena and their predictors may allow providers to better manage the unique challenges and emotional stressors of the pediatric ED to enhance personal well-being and professional performance. That is the conclusion of a study to be published in the July 2019 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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Michigan News
Methodological limitations in HIV drug implementation studies help to explain why high-risk individuals are not accessing pre-exposure prophylaxis that can reduce the subsequent risk of HIV infection, according to a new University of Michigan study.
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Reuters Health
Nearly one in eight sexually active teen girls are pressured by their partners to have unprotected sex and try to conceive when they don't want a baby, a U.S. study suggests.
Researchers focused on what's known as reproductive coercion, a form of relationship abuse that can involve things like poking holes in condoms, hiding birth control pills, physically hurting girls who refuse to have unprotected sex, or threatening to break up with them if they don't want a baby.
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The Conversation via PhysOrg
Forensic science is under attack. A string of recent collapsed trials and quashed convictions that relied on forensic evidence have led some experts to say the field is in crisis. Several U.S. and UK government reports over the last few years have highlighted and condemned failings in the use of forensic science. And there is an increasing rhetoric in the media against "junk" forensic science, an informal term used to condemn techniques not validated by a solid body of scientific research.
Among the public, the popularity of true crime documentaries exploring the role of forensics in potential miscarriages of justices, such as Making a Murderer or Netflix's recent Exhibit A, may be encouraging the idea that forensic science doesn't provide trustworthy evidence. But it's not the science itself that is the issue. It is how it is misused by rogue scientists or misinterpreted by the police and the courts.
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