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From experiencing assault in dark corridors of the ER, to feeling like “the operating room is the locker room,” women in medicine are speaking out as part of Time’s Up — and demanding safe, equitable workplaces, now.
You might call him a monster — a man, given power, authority, and access to women’s bodies, who abuses his position to almost unbelievable ends. He’s Larry Nassar, the USA Gymnastics doctor who molested more than 100 young athletes during so-called clinical care. Or Robert Hadden, the Columbia University obstetrician at the center of a class-action lawsuit alleging he digitally penetrated, fondled, even licked women on his exam table for more than 20 years.
But monsters are fiction. Perhaps a more apt metaphor for cases like these would be a virus — something that festers, and something that spreads.
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Arizona law enforcement are seeing success after changing their mindset over which kits get tested
Arkansas state crime laboratory is "chipping away" at a backlog of sexual-assault evidence kits
Delaware advocates call for changes to handling of kits
Florida gets closer to eliminating its backlog
Idaho house signs off on mandatory testing bill
Illinois legislator pushes for electronic tracking system to end backlog
Nevada backlog keeps victims waiting
North Carolina introduced legislation to reduce the backlog
Texas introduced legislation to reduce the backlog
Washington state lawmakers push to speed up kit processing
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Imagine identifying a toxin so potent it could rewire a child’s brain and erode his immune system. A substance that, in high doses, tripled the risk of heart disease and lung cancer and reduced life expectancy by 20 years.
And then realizing that tens of millions of American children had been exposed.
Nadine Burke Harris, California’s newly appointed surgeon general, will tell you this is not a hypothetical scenario. She is a leading voice in a movement trying to transform our understanding of how the traumatic experiences that affect so many American children can trigger serious physical and mental illness.
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Slate
When Amanda Robson’s husband, Wade, first told her that he had suffered years of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Michael Jackson, she grew worried for the safety of their son. “Is there any confusion as to what is appropriate in how you love [him]?” she says she asked Wade, in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland. Her concern, that as an alleged victim of molestation her husband may have been a threat that spread that evil to another generation, reflects a view so embedded in the culture that it rarely merits much discussion.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control via Medical Xpress
Gonorrhoea is the second most commonly notified sexually transmitted infection across the EU/EEA countries, with almost 500,000 reported cases between 2007 and 2016. The infection is treatable, but Neisseria gonorrhoeae keep showing high levels of azithromycin resistance, according to latest results of the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme.
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Nature
Palestinian epidemiologist Amira Shaheen has received the 2019 Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)–Elsevier Foundation Award for her work investigating the Palestinian healthcare system’s readiness to identify and refer victims of gender-based violence.
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Reuters
Portugal has declared a day of mourning for victims of domestic violence after data showed attackers had murdered 11 women so far this year - the highest number in a decade. The cabinet set the day for March 7, one day before International Women’s Day, and said government buildings would fly flags at half mast.
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Women's genitals are as diverse as our faces, as you can see in the Labia Library photo gallery. We are accustomed to some faces being accepted as "beautiful", and know that the standard varies across time and culture. We may be less familiar with the idea that similar judgements are made about the vulva.
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The New York Times
One night in November 1999, a 26-year-old woman was raped in a parking lot in Grand Rapids, MI. Police officers managed to get the perpetrator’s DNA from a semen sample, but it matched no one in their databases.
Detectives found no fingerprints at the scene and located no witnesses. The woman, who had been attacked from behind, could not offer a description. It looked like the rapist would never be found.
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CBS News
Melita Kimbrough's father Benjamin Costoso Perez died in early July 2018. His body is still inside a refrigerator in the backlog-ridden morgue in Puerto Rico's capital.
For about seven months, Kimbrough, who lives in Nevada, has been trying to claim her late father's body to no avail. She said she traveled to Puerto Rico about a month after her father died in Bayamón, a municipality in the outskirts of San Juan, but that a prolonged process with the morgue to confirm his identity has prevented her from receiving the body.
As of Sunday — approximately 240 days after her father's death — Kimbrough has not received his body.
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