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Virginity tests and 'hymen repair' surgery finally set to be banned
Unilad
England and Wales are set to finally outlaw virginity testing and "hymen repair" surgeries.
Virginity tests are considered to be a highly intrusive examination, in which doctors check to see whether a woman’s hymen is still intact. "Hymen repair," officially known as hymenoplasty, is a surgical procedure to temporarily reconstruct the hymen.
This comes from a widely-believed, no-less false assumption that all women’s hymens break and everyone bleeds during their first time having sexual intercourse, when it could tear as a result of exercise, tampons or other reasons.
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Inside the nation's overdose crisis in prisons and jails
The Marshall Project
Prisons and jails in the United States have been increasingly deadly places in recent years, according to new federal data. But one cause of death has climbed most dramatically: overdoses. From 2001 to 2018, the number of people who have died of drug or alcohol intoxication in state prisons increased by more than 600 percent, according to an analysis of newly-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In county jails, overdose deaths increased by over 200 percent.
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Health costs of gun violence exceed $1 billion a year, GAO says
Politico
Treating firearm-related injuries in the U.S. costs more than $1 billion annually, with public health programs like Medicaid picking up most of the tab, according to new Government Accountability Office estimates shared with POLITICO.
The assessment was requested by House and Senate Democrats last year and comes as the Biden administration is encouraging cities to spend unused Covid relief funds to address gun violence.
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A secret algorithm is transforming DNA evidence. This defendant could be the first to scrutinize it
The Washington Post
TrueAllele is reshaping DNA analysis, providing key evidence in thousands of homicides, rapes and other crimes like an armed robbery in Virginia in which genetic material was too complex to interpret. But that comes with a major caveat: Not a single prosecutor, government crime lab or defendant has had a meaningful look at how it works.
Its maker, Cybergenetics, says the software code is a trade secret that it has spent decades and millions of dollars developing. Defendants nationwide have for years fruitlessly waged legal battles to access it, arguing that they have a constitutional right to examine the evidence against them for potential errors.
But now, this little-noticed Fairfax County case — along with another in Pennsylvania — could become the first in the nation in which defense experts are allowed to peer inside.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine helps develop physician training to prevent gun injuries, deaths
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Each year, nearly 40,000 people in the United States die because of guns, making firearm-related injuries a leading cause of death for adults and children. According to a recent report, gun violence surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, making 2020 one of the nation’s deadliest years for firearm-related casualties on record. Health care professionals could help reduce the toll, but only about 20 percent receive any education on firearm injuries or their prevention. To help change that, Johns Hopkins Medicine experts and collaborators across the United States established a national consensus guideline on educational priorities regarding firearm injury prevention for health care professionals.
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Same hospitals but worse outcomes for Black patients than white ones
Los Angeles Times
Black patients are significantly more likely to suffer dangerous bleeding, infections and other serious problems related to surgical procedures than are white patients treated in the same hospital, according to a new analysis from the nonprofit Urban Institute.
The analysis, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, builds on earlier research showing that Black patients are more likely than white ones to endure injuries and acquire illnesses in the hospital.
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Military sexual misconduct class action claims up 170 percent over last 6 months
Global News
The number of military sexual misconduct class action claims have jumped by 170 percent since late December 2020 amid a reckoning over abuse of power and the toxic culture in the Canadian Forces.
More than 600 new claims have been submitted just in the past month, but there are growing concerns that the process is blindsiding some who have come forward to share the trauma of their experiences.
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Facebook messages lead to warrant in NJ woman's rape case after nearly 8 years
Times News Express
Authorities in Pennsylvania have filed an arrest warrant in a 2013 campus attack at Gettysburg College after a years-long campaign by the woman who said she was raped. Police say they are looking for 28-year-old Ian Cleary of Saratoga, California, but have not yet located him. The affidavit filed Tuesday accuses Cleary of stalking 18-year-old Shannon Keeler at a party in December 2013, following her home to her dorm and then sexually assaulting her. Keeler says she contacted police again last year after seeing online messages from Cleary’s Facebook account that said: “So I raped you.” Police say they have linked the account to him.
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Case study on India: Impact of domestic violence on the nutritional status of children
Observer Research Foundation
Evidence from Latin America on domestic violence and child nutrition indicates adverse effects on a child’s long-term nutritional status. There is less likelihood of receiving pre-natal care, and the child being breastfed and immunized. A causal estimate of the intangible costs of violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests a negative link with women’s health, affecting both short-term health outcomes and the human capital accumulation of children.
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For concussion patients, CTs offer window into recovery
University of California - San Francisco via ScienceDaily
CT scans for patients with concussion provide critical information about their risk for long-term impairment and potential to make a complete recovery — findings that underscore the need for physician follow-up.
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The need to replace 'ancestry' in forensics with something more accurate
North Carolina State University via PhysOrg
A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both the fluidity of populations and how historical events have shaped our skeletal characteristics.
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