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MedPage Today
All adults — not just Baby Boomers and other considered at high risk — should be screened for hepatitis C virus infection, said the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Citing better treatments with direct-acting antiviral therapy and increasing prevalence of HCV infection among younger adults, the Task Force concluded with "moderate certainty" that there was a substantial net benefit in screening adults ages 18-79 for HCV infection.
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The IAFN Foundation is seeking applications from IAFN members to serve on the IAFN Foundation Board of Directors. The IAFN Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit that promotes the professional values of forensic nursing by supporting forensic nurses and ongoing advancements in nursing practice through scholarships and grants. Please apply by Oct. 7, 2019.
If you’ve been waiting, this is it! Seats are still available through Sept. 5. We are unable to accept onsite registrations, so register today!
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Duquesne University School of Education
The forensic nursing community has long known that the lack of expert Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) throughout the country has been a major barrier regarding attempts to increase the number of SANEs. Many nurses complete the didactic SANE course, but then find it difficult to identify an expert SANE in their clinical area who can then mentor them through their first exams with a patient who has been sexually assaulted. The mentor would then be available to them to answer their questions as they begin to accumulate their required hours and expertise in order to sit for the certification exam. For those nurses who do not have a SANE mentor where they work, there are clinical courses that are sometimes offered at a site where the nurse can attend a 2-3 day hands on experience in order to learn how to conduct an exam.
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Resource Sharing Project
The Rural Training & Technical Assistance Project at the Resource Sharing Project has created a Rural Toolkit which houses publications on 18 topics (including medical advocacy).
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Ms. Magazine
In much the same way that Nicole Brown Simpson’s murder drew domestic violence out of the shadows two decades ago, the #MeToo movement is shining a spotlight on sexual violence. Stories and experiences that were once discussed privately in hushed tones have now become a society-wide conversation.
Amid this new collective awareness, it is critical to consider the role healthcare can, and must, play in recovery from sexual assault.
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NPR
Recently, the Trump administration announced a new regulation that would allow it to detain migrant families who have crossed the U.S. border illegally for an indefinite period of time. The new rule aims to replace the Flores agreement, a 1997 court settlement which limits the amount of time that children can be detained by the government to a maximum of 20 days.
But psychologists say that indefinite detention could have a lasting impact on the development and mental health of these children.
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George Washington University via PhysOrg
Online hate thrives globally through self-organized, scalable clusters that interconnect to form resilient networks spread across multiple social media platforms, countries and languages, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. Researchers at the George Washington University developed a mapping model, the first of its kind, to track how these online hate clusters thrive. They believe it could help social media platforms and law enforcement in the battle against hate online.
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VICE
Yeardley Love, a 22-year-old lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in May 2010. The attack that killed her wasn’t the first—he’d assaulted her before. To Kathryn Laughon, a forensic nurse examiner and professor of nursing at UVA, one detail stands out: During one earlier incident, Love’s ex-boyfriend put his hands around her neck and strangled her. People saw it happen, but didn’t report it at the time—it got lumped in with the other episodes, and wasn’t recognized anything more or less violent than everything else going on.
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CDC
During 2012-2016, an average of 43,999 HPV-associated cancers were reported each year, according to a new study published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Among the estimated 34,800 cancers probably caused by HPV, 92 percent are attributable to the HPV types that are included in the HPV vaccine and could be prevented if HPV vaccine recommendations were followed, according to the report.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
A staggering number of teen girls are experiencing an insidious form of relationship abuse: reproductive coercion.
Researchers report that it affects one in eight adolescent girls who are sexually active.
Reproductive coercion is a form of abuse in which a girl or woman is pressured into pregnancy. From a male partner threatening to leave if his female partner refuses to have his baby to poking holes in condoms before sex, the coercion can take shape in a variety of ways.
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The Independent
Ngodibe* has endured the horror of breast ironing first hand.
The 16-year-old said she had heard of the practice long before it happened to her, but nobody explained why it was happening. “I did always wonder why they had done it to me. When I understood, I knew I would never forget. It hurts so much,” she says.
“When I think of that day I wonder why my own family did that to me.”
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USA Today
When accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself while awaiting trial this month, it was the first recorded suicide at Manhattan’s federal detention center in 13 years.
But across the vast Bureau of Prisons, suicides have been gradually ticking up even as the overall inmate population has declined.
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Science Magazine
A new grant-funded project at The University of Texas at Arlington aims to catalog the growing number of investigations into allegations of teacher misconduct in Texas.
Catherine Robert, UTA assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies, is developing a database with information about Texas certified educators who have engaged in sexual misconduct during the last two decades (1999-2019). She is collaborating with David Thompson, professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s College of Education and Human Development, on the project, titled “Educator Sexual Misconduct in Texas: Research, Instruction, Prevention” and funded by a $301,000 grant from the Texas Office of the Governor.
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Drexel Now
Violence toward first responders is widespread and can warrant a felony charge in Pennsylvania, yet new research shows that victims often feel they do not receive legal justice. Now a study of victim cases and interviews with district attorneys in Philadelphia offers three solutions to help educate first responders and legal professionals to participate constructively in the legal system intended to prevent incidents from occurring and deliver justice. The findings, from researchers at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, are published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
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