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American College of Surgeons via Medical Xpress
The rise in firearm violence has coincided with an increase in the severity of injuries firearms inflict as well as the cost of operations to treat those injuries; policy makers must be more aggressive in addressing violence to curb these trends, researchers report in a large national study of gunshot wounds that appears as an "article in press" on the Journal of the American College of Surgeons website ahead of print.
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August 21, 2:00-3:30 PM EST
The American Nurses Association (ANA) once again wants to understand nurses' access to and usage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) right now. It is critical that we hear from you on the PPE situation you are experiencing in August.
This survey is open to all nurses – ANA member and non-members. Please take a few minutes to complete this PPE survey. Answer the questions describing the situation you faced in the last two weeks.
To take the survey, click on this link. And feel free to forward to any colleague who would like to participate!
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The Atlantic
Call it the “shadow pandemic,” as the United Nations did. As families around the world were forced into lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, they were given a simple message: Stay home, stay safe. Yet the ubiquity of domestic violence means that for millions of people, home is anything but safe. As one charity put it, “Abusers always work from home.”
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Daily Maverick
More than 900 women and girls have gone missing in Peru during its coronavirus lockdown, a top women's rights official said on Aug. 4, calling for the creation of a national missing persons register to address the "alarming" number of disappearances.
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HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
More than 40 percent of nurses on the front lines during the pandemic may be experiencing burnout, according to a research letter published online Aug. 4 in JAMA Network Open.
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Pittwire
Researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Promundo-US found that men who harbor more harmful attitudes about masculinity—including beliefs about aggression and homophobia—also tend toward bullying, sexual harassment, depression and suicidal thoughts.
The study, published in Preventive Medicine, is based on the “Man Box” Scale developed by Promundo-US, the U.S. member of a global consortium dedicated to promoting gender equality and ending violence, as a way to measure harmful norms and stereotypes about masculinity. The 15-item scale encompasses themes such as self-sufficiency, acting tough, physical attractiveness, rigid masculine gender roles, hypersexuality, and control.
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Washington State University
Despite common perceptions that big cities have more violence, women living in small towns are most at risk of violence from current or former spouses and partners, according to a recent study by Washington State University criminologist Kathryn DuBois.
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Independent
Reporting rape is traumatic for anyone, but having to pay two months' wages to complete the medical form prevents many in Ghana from seeking justice, said a leading actor whose campaign to waive fees has reached the presidential palace.
British-Ghanaian actor Ama K. Abebrese – who starred with Idris Elba in the award-winning 2015 drama Beasts of No Nation – started a petition after hearing about the prohibitive charges in the West African nation where rape convictions are rare.
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The Crime Report
The increase in firearm homicides during the pandemic underlines the need for a broader approach that treats gun violence as a community health challenge, according to a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
That includes focusing on the roots of violence, particularly the “stark” racial and economic disparities that victimize America’s poorest communities, wrote the paper’s author, Dr. Garen Wintemute of the University of California-Davis Department of Emergency Medicine.
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CIDRAP
Experts in antibiotic resistance and sexually transmitted diseases have long been worried about the growing resistance to the antibiotics used to treat gonorrhea. And with the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains of gonorrhea in recent years, those concerns have taken on a new urgency.
Those strains threaten the efficacy of the currently recommended, and last remaining, treatment regimen for gonorrhea—a shot of ceftriaxone, with or without an oral dose of azithromycin. New antibiotics for gonorrhea are in clinical trials, but because gonorrhea has quickly developed resistance to all the antibiotics that have been used to treat it, there are questions about how long any new antibiotic would remain effective.
That dilemma led Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the University of California–Los Angeles, and researchers from around the country to examine a different approach to treating the third most common STD in the United States. The approach involves targeting patients whose infections are still susceptible to antibiotics that were previously recommended.
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