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As 2015 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. 7.
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The New York Times
From Nov. 19: Anna didn’t want to keep her feelings secret. As far as she knew, neither did D.J. In recent weeks, their relationship had changed, and it wasn’t clear when or how to share the news. ‘‘It’s your call,’’ she said to him in the lead-up to a meeting with his mother and older brother. ‘‘It’s your family. It’s up to you.’’
When she arrived at the house on Memorial Day in 2011, Anna didn’t know what D.J. planned to do.
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Girls Not Brides
From Feb. 5: Heather B. Hamiltion writes: Girls Not Brides
has grown to a partnership of over 400 organizations from more than 60 countries around the
world. I am inspired and motivated by the diversity of the membership, which brings together a wealth of
expertise and knowledge. Together we are stronger, and together we will be more effective in our advocacy,
if we speak with one voice in calling for an end to child marriage.
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Autism Society
From Oct. 1: Police officers and other first responders may encounter or be asked to provide services to a person with autism spectrum disorder.
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Sexual Violence Research Initiative
From Oct. 29: Sexual, intimate partner and other forms of gender-based violence (SIGBV)
are a violation of human rights and a cause of morbidity and mortality in conflict settings.
Faith based organisations often have access and influence in communities that few other
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have and may be in a unique position to respond to SIGBV.
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IAFN
From Jan. 8: On Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law the fiscal 2015 defense authorization bill (HR3979), which includes a provision (Section 539) that establishes requirements relating to sexual assault forensic examiners (SAFEs) for the armed forces. The provision establishes the following ...
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Citizen-Times
From Oct. 1: They live in an online world where women are objects and identities are supposed to remain anonymous. They call themselves PUAs — Pick-Up Artists — and use tactics like the Anti-Slut Defense and the Zero Night Stand.
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The New York Times
From May 14: Natasha, 14, had just gotten off the school bus after ninth-grade basketball practice one evening and was walking home on a quiet street beside a creek. When she heard footsteps behind her, she thought it was one of her classmates. Instead, it was a man who grabbed her and threw her over a fence into a wooded area beside the creek.
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Discover
From Oct. 15: So is there an epidemic of male suicides? I’ll assume we’re talking about the USA although what I’ll say goes for most other countries. Here are the facts: Male suicide rates are much higher than female suicide rates. The most recent available data for the USA in from 2013, when the age-adjusted male:female suicide ratio was 3.68:1 ...
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Advance Web
From March 26: In case you haven't noticed, you can't pass a grocery counter or drugstore checkout without seeing a magazine blaring the frightening news. One of our Olympic athletes, divorced from a famous reality TV family, is transitioning into a woman (gasp!). In garish photo-shopped color, we see the potential results. Parents are horrified, and children are encouraged to look away. This can't be true! If you carry a nurse card, you may be questioned at length.
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PM 360
From Aug. 6: The clinical tool Predicting Abusive Head Trauma (PredAHT) can support medical professionals in determining the likelihood that a pediatric head trauma case is abusive given its validation in a recent study.
“Given the rarity of abusive head trauma for clinicians who are not child abuse specialists, it is important to be able to explicitly define which combination of clinical features carries a high probability of abuse when a clinical work-up has been conducted,” wrote Laura Elizabeth Cowley of Cardiff (Wales) University and her associates.
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