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As 2021 comes to a close, IAFN would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the Forensic Nurses News a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 6.
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STI Treatment Guidelines Update
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
From July: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines, 2021. This document provides current evidence-based diagnostic, management, and treatment recommendations, and serves as a source of clinical guidance for managing sexually transmitted infections.
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When does a bruise on an infant or young child signal abuse?
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago via ScienceDaily
From April: A refined and validated bruising clinical decision rule, called TEN-4-FACESp, which specifies body regions on which bruising is likely due to abuse for infants and young children, may improve earlier recognition of cases that should be further evaluated for child abuse.
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'Touch DNA' found on clothing helps police find gropers after breakthrough Utah case
KSL.com
From June: The image of a detective pulling a fingerprint from a desk or door knob might be the first that comes to mind when thinking of DNA evidence collection, but did you know a fingerprint left on clothing can now help law enforcement identifies suspects?
That means victims of crimes such as groping — which often leave few clues leading to perpetrators — have a better chance of finding justice, according to a nursing professor at Brigham Young University on the forefront of making the new investigative tool a standard practice in Utah and throughout the country.
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After a sexual assault, where can you get a medical and forensic exam?
NBC News
From January: When Leah Griffin regained consciousness in her apartment on the morning of April 10, 2014, she knew she had been sexually assaulted. Bleeding from her groin and still feeling the effects of what she would later learn was Xanax placed in her drink the night before, she drove herself to the hospital.
“I went to the closest emergency room because I thought that’s what I was supposed to do,” Griffin said.
But when she walked into Swedish Medical Center Ballard and told the staff at the ER desk she had been raped, she said she was informed that the hospital did not “do rape kits” — the forensic exams conducted after a sexual assault. The main hospital that did perform them, Harborview Medical Center, was more than six miles across town.
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Virginity tests and 'hymen repair' surgery finally set to be banned
Unilad
From July: 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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Special section: Saving lives through the National Violent Death Reporting System
The Nation's Health
From June: Researchers are using through data captured by the National Violent Death Reporting System to understand the context of U.S. homicides and other violent deaths, and developing preventive strategies. NVDRS combines information from police reports, medical examiner and coroner reports, toxicology reports, death certificates, vital records and more. With the linked information, the system is able to provide a more complete picture of the circumstances that contribute to violent deaths, offering researchers an opportunity for innovative analysis.
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'Unthinkable' discovery in Canada as remains of 215 children found buried near residential school
CNN
From June: The gruesome discovery took decades, and for some survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, the confirmation that children as young as three were buried on school grounds crystallizes the sorrow they have carried all their lives.
"I lost my heart, it was so much hurt and pain to finally hear, for the outside world, to finally hear what we assumed was happening there," said Harvey McLeod, who attended the school for two years in the late 1960s, in a telephone interview with CNN.
"The story is so unreal, that yesterday it became real for a lot of us in this community," he said.
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Double-murder investigation is pilot case for DNA-based genealogy method
Linköping University via Medical Xpress
From June: The technology using DNA-based genealogy that solved a double murder in Linköping opens completely new possibilities in investigating serious crime. LiU researchers are now involved in spreading new knowledge about the technology, which brings hope to police forces and has aroused major international interest.
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How mRNA vaccines could prevent or eliminate infectious diseases beyond COVID-19
University of Pennsylvania Almanac
From July: COVID-19 vaccines have quickly helped contain COVID-19. Scientists created a vaccine to prevent the new virus using foundational research and technology developed at Penn. Today, as we race to vaccinate more people in more places against COVID-19, the biology behind these vaccines is poised to change the world again.
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Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity
Associated Press
From June: Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.
The new provisions, released June 1 after 14 years of study, were contained in the revised criminal law section of the Vatican’s Code of Canon Law, the in-house legal system that covers the 1.3 billion-member Catholic Church and operates independently from civil laws.
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