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WJRT-TV
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is ordering Me Too Kits Co. to stop marketing and selling their at-home sexual assault kits in the state.
Nessel says the New York-based company is violating several sections of Michigan's Consumer Protection Act. She sent the company an immediate cease and desist order on Aug. 29.
Me Too Kits Co. is marketing and selling a sexual assault evidence collection kit for victims to use at home. Nessel said the kits actually would delay victims from getting proper care and undermine a police investigation.
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Given the recent popularity of home DNA test kits, it is no surprise that groups are developing do-it-yourself sexual assault evidence collection kits. As forensic nurses, our primary concern is the patient's health. These at-home kits provide no healthcare benefit. See our full statement here: www.forensicnurses.org/DIYkits
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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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TrialSite News
A new study led by researchers from the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research identified a transcriptional signature in B cells associated with protection from SIV or HIV infection in five independent trials of HIV-1 vaccine candidates. The gene expression signature was found to correlate with protection in the only human HIV vaccine trial that previously showed modest efficacy, RV144.
With results published in Science Translational Medicine, this signature and specific genes were previously shown to be induced in response to influenza and yellow fever vaccination in humans.
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BBC
Men who kill their partners follow a "homicide timeline" that could be tracked by police to help prevent deaths, new research suggests.
Criminology expert Dr Jane Monckton Smith found an eight-stage pattern in 372 killings in the UK.
The University of Gloucestershire lecturer said controlling behavior could be a key indicator of someone's potential to kill their partner.
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MSN
The B.C. government wants to hear from the public on whether employers should offer paid leave to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
The province launched the public consultation Aug. 30, allowing residents to fill out an online questionnaire until Oct. 8. Written submissions will also be accepted until that date.
Results from the consultation will help inform improvements to the Employment Standards Act. Recommendations will then be made to cabinet in the fall.
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The Conversation via PhysOrg
At least one in six boys are sexually abused before their 18th birthday. This number rises to one in four men across their lifespan.
The rates of sexual abuse and assault are even higher in boys and men from sexual minority populations.
Sexual violation in gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals often complicates their sense of self, and how they fit, or don't fit, into LGBTQ+ culture and communities. Such abuse may even impact their reaching out for help or reporting traumatic events as they fear stigmatization or victim-blaming.
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The New York Times
Julie Douib tried to do everything right. She left her abusive partner. She reported his violence to the police at least a dozen times. After he forced her to give up custody of their two children for the weekend, she told the police that he had a license for a gun and that she was afraid he would shoot her.
“Madame, I am sorry,’’ the officer replied, according to Ms. Douib’s father, ‘‘but his license cannot be taken away unless he points the gun at you.”
He did so 48 hours later, and fired twice, hitting Ms. Douib, 34, in her chest and arms. “He killed me,” she said with her last breath, said Maryse Santini, the downstairs neighbor who found her.
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Nippon.com
Statistics compiled by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare show that there were 159,850 child abuse consultations at Japanese child guidance offices in 2018. This figure, the highest since record keeping began in 1990, rose by 26,072 from 2017. It is believed that media coverage of high-profile child abuse fatalities has helped increase reporting.
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NPR
In a story published in October 2018, NPR looked at a new study on spanking that found a "fairly robust" association between corporal punishment and youth violence. NPR also wrote about bans on spanking — Sweden was the first country to prohibit corporal punishment of children, in 1979. Since then, the number of nations that had banned the practice had risen to 54. What's the current status of the campaign to prohibit corporal punishment of children?
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The Arab Weekly
While many women and girls in marginalized areas of Lebanon have no access to protection from gender-based violence, ABAAD, a local NGO that advocates for gender equality, has been reaching out to those in need for such services through its Jina al-Dar project.
Jina al-Dar involves a bus touring the most underprivileged areas of towns and villages, transporting a specialized team to provide services on the prevention and reduction of violence against women and girls, said project co-manager Hani al-Salhani.
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Medical News Bulletin
The brain proteins GFAP and UCH-L1 are released into the blood following brain injury. A blood test to detect these proteins could help medical staff to identify patients with concussive and subconcussive brain injury. In a large U.S. study in trauma patients, researchers evaluated the ability of blood tests for GFAP and UCH-L1 to identify patients with concussive and subconcussive trauma. This will help them develop a reliable new blood test for concussion. They recently reported their findings in BMJ Paediatrics Open.
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Linköping University via ScienceDaily
A medication that boosts the body's own cannabis-like substances, endocannabinoids, shows promise to help the brain un-learn fear memories when these are no longer meaningful. These results, obtained in an early-stage, experimental study on healthy volunteers, give hope that a new treatment can be developed for post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD.
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia via Medical Xpress
Scientists have discovered that a receptor on the surface of brain cells plays a key role in regulating how both animals and people respond to stress. The research suggests that the receptor may represent an important biomarker of post-traumatic stress disorder in humans and may offer a new target for future, more effective treatments for stress and anxiety.
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