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Science Friday
Last year’s arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, better known as the Golden State Killer, drew lots of attention for the clever use of consumer genetic testing websites to identify a suspect—and for all the murky ethical questions that came with it. But this wasn’t the first time law enforcement had used the technique to solve a cold case. Detectives looking for DeAngelo took their inspiration from an earlier case in New Hampshire, known as the “Bear Brook murders.” In that case, police were up against both an unknown killer and unidentified victims, until they relied on the genealogy database GEDmatch to help them with a crack in the case.
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The 2019 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice is an opportunity for forensic nursing clinicians and researchers to exchange knowledge and discuss new approaches to practice. Be part of this important conversation! Submit a proposal to speak or present your poster.
The International Association of Forensic Nursing is now soliciting applications for the IAFN Research Awards for FY 2019. Applications will be peer-reviewed by an internal review panel through the IAFN Research Committee. Eligibility is limited to IAFN members. Applications are due Feb. 15! Learn more.
There is still time to join us for our free, members-only Forensic Nursing Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. Learn about the impact of healthcare policy on your forensic practice and meet with members of Congress to advocate for issues that impact forensic nursing. Training is provided. If you are interested in attending and belong to an IAFN chapter, please reach out to your chapter leadership to see how they might support you.
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Rolling Stone
New details have emerged about the rape, and subsequent pregnancy, of an incapacitated female patient at a long-term care facility in Phoenix, Arizona. On Wednesday, Jan. 23, Nathan Sutherland, a 36-year-old nurse employed by Hacienda HealthCare, was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult abuse after his court-ordered DNA sample allegedly matched the victim’s baby. Sutherland appeared in court but did not enter a plea, and is being held on a $500,000 bond.
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CNN
Fewer Americans are likely to own a gun now than 40 years ago, but those who do are more likely to own handguns over rifles or shotguns. As the proportion of those with handguns has increased, so has the number of children under the age of five who are dying from firearm injuries, according to a new study.
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Stanford University Medical Center via Medical Xpress
Hospital readmissions of patients within six months of suffering a firearm injury cost taxpayers, private insurers and uninsured families an average of $86 million a year from 2010 through 2015, according to new estimates from Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.
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Florida International University via Medical Xpress
A new study led by FIU researchers at the Center for Children and Families found that traumatic childhood experiences like domestic violence, abuse and parental incarceration impact brain functioning and increase the risk of substance use during adolescence.
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Bustle
During the Jan. 28 episode of The Bachelor, 23-year-old contestant Caelynn Miller-Keyes opened up about her experience as a survivor of sexual assault. Miller-Keyes, a Miss USA runner-up who has used her platform to advocate for sexual assault survivors in the past, disclosed that she was drugged and raped during her sophomore year in college, and described how she was initially turned away from receiving a rape kit, a forensic exam that gathers and preserves any possible physical and DNA evidence of sexual assault, at a hospital.
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Nationwide Children's Hospital via Medical Xpress
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth aged 10 to 24 years, and it accounts for more than 17 percent of all deaths in this age group. In 2016, an estimated 6,150 youths died by suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overall rate of deaths by suicide in this age group is 9.6 per 100,000.
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Reuters via Asia One
Children and adolescents who suffer from depression or behavior problems may be more likely to play potentially fatal "choking games" to achieve a euphoric high than young people who don't have mental health issues, a French study suggests.
Roughly one in 10 teens and pre-teens have participated in this dangerous game at least once, researchers report in Pediatrics. The risk was more than doubled, however, for young people with symptoms of depression or conduct disorders.
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Violence-related injuries at work are on the rise across Canada, and this is especially the case for women, according to two recent studies we conducted at the not-for-profit Institute for Work and Health.
We found that women are four times more likely than men to experience sexual assault or unwanted touching on the job, no matter what occupation or industry they work in.
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PhysOrg
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what too many students across the country already know: the incidence of mass homicides on school campuses has risen steeply in recent years, as has their toll.
Between 1994 and 2018, there were 38 school rampages that resulted in multiple fatalities. Five of those occurred during the 2017-2018 academic year, which ended in June, and three others were in the 2016-2017 school year, according to a study in a recent edition of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Forbes
An isolated burial site in far eastern Tennessee that was excavated in the 1970s has recently been reexamined by archaeologists interested in the origin and evolution of treponemal diseases, including syphilis.
At the Wilhoite site along the Nolichucky River, Native American remains dating to the Early Woodland period — 900 BC to 200 AD — were found by amateur archaeologists four decades ago. At the time, prior to appropriate legislation that protected archaeological resources and Native remains, many skeletons were lost to private collections. In 2002, however, the Frank H. McClung Museum in Knoxville received a donation of a number of artifacts and one skull with its lower jaw, labeled Burial G, from Wilhoite.
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