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ScienceAlert
We all love a good rags to riches story, but the truth is that poverty never really leaves you. Not only does it have a lasting effect on your health and mental well-being, growing up poor changes you at a genetic level.
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Do you provide Medical Forensic Exams to patients? If so, we want to know more about your program! You can search our program list or add/update your program here. Not sure if a colleague or supervisor also plans to update the list? Don't worry about duplicate entries. We will reach out if we have questions.
The Physical Exam & Utilizing the Istanbul Protocol, the third webinar in our five part, Members-Only series Medical-Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers will be held on April 17, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Register today! This session is free and Nursing Contact Hours will be available.
Join IAFN’s research committee on April 18, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern for Research 101: Stories from the experts to learn how other forensic nurse researchers started their programs of research, what they are doing, and lessons learned along the way. This session is free for IAFN members and Nursing Contact Hours will be available.
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The Journal of Forensic Nursing is seeking original articles, review papers, and case reports for
a special issue to be published in 2019 highlighting research and scholarship related to trauma-informed
care relevant to forensic nursing. The deadline for submission has been extended to May 1, 2019.
Each year, the Association seeks to identify and recognize those individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement of forensic nursing and to the growth and success of International Association of Forensic Nurses. Please consider nominating individuals you know who deserve recognition.
Were you last SANE-A® or SANE-P® certified in 2016? This is your year to renew! Your CE accrual start date is now tailored to YOU - based on the date you last certified. See the renewal page for details and apply online. Save $100 when your applications is received by April 30, 2019.
The Southern California chapter’s spring training will be held on April 27, 2019 in Escondido.
The Wisconsin chapter’s annual conference will be held May 13-15, 2019 in La Crosse.
The Virginia chapter is hosting their annual conference May 15-17, 2019 in Bedford.
The North Carolina chapter is hosting a conference on May 20, 2019 in Raleigh.
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Law360
Reforms meant to combat crime against Native American women, provide resources for domestic violence survivors and increase rape kit testing nationwide hang in legislative limbo after they passed the House of Representatives last week to a frosty reception in the Senate.
The changes, part of a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, are some of the more popular provisions of a law that has touched off debates over gun rights and LGBT equality that could drag on for years.
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Campus Security & Life Safety
U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Grassley announced April 2 that they’ve worked with other senators to reintroduce bipartisan legislation for the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. The legislation is designed to combat sexual assault on college campuses by protecting students and increasing accountability and transparency for universities.
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FBI
The effort to address a backlog of sexual assault kits nationwide has led to tens of thousands of long-shelved kits being tested over the last several years. The FBI Laboratory alone tested more than 3,600 kits in a four-year effort to assist state and local agencies.
The work being done to inventory and test the evidence kits is one part of the story. The other part is what has been discovered about the serial nature of many sexual offenders as thousands of cases are added into the FBI’s national DNA and violent crime databases.
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Medpage Today
Nearly three of four women who experienced sexual assault had new or worse pain a week later and in most cases that pain persisted for weeks, researchers said here.
One week after sexual assault, 76 percent of women had clinically significant new or worsening pain, reported Samuel McLean, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues, at the 2019 American Pain Society Scientific Meeting. Six weeks later, 54 percent of women still were in pain.
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Lehigh University via EurekAlert!
The crime of human trafficking — defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as modern-day slavery that "involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act" — is notoriously difficult to prosecute.
"It is often misidentified as a single, isolated crime, like prostitution or a drug offense," says Dan Lopresti, professor and chair of the department of science and engineering at Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. "And unless you put together the pieces, you don't realize there is a much bigger picture."
A group of computational researchers, experts in artificial intelligence and other members of the technology community is joining forces with policy experts, law enforcement officials, activists and survivors to help put the pieces together.
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allnurses
Health systems have to be forward thinking and use creative strategies to recruit good nurses. According to an NSI Nursing Solutions’ 2016 National Healthcare and Retention RN Staffing Report, it costs a conservative estimate of $54,400 to replace each nurse, or $373,200 for every percentage point change to the turnover rate. About 81.8 percent of organizations say retention is a top priority, yet only 51.5 percent have a formal retention plan in place. Health systems often focus on recruitment efforts and fail to look at internal factors contributing to the high rate of nurse turnover.
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Forbes
When thinking about traumatic brain injuries, most people immediately conjure images of NFL players, car accidents or nasty falls. But there is a global public health epidemic going completely unrecognized – and untreated: intimate partner violence. In fact, IPV is the most common form of violence against women in the world, with nearly one in three women age 15 or older experiencing physical or sexual IPV. And it occurs in all settings, amongst all socioeconomic, religious and cultural groups.
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The Atlantic
After assaults are reported, survivors’ bodies are treated like crime scenes and, if they so choose, searched, swabbed, and photographed, along with their clothes and other personal belongings, to find possible DNA evidence left by an attacker. Whatever evidence is found is then sealed in a sexual-assault evidence kit. The DNA can often be a crucial tool in prosecuting sexual assault. But that requires the kits to be tested by a police crime lab. Before 2016, forensic nurses didn’t always know what happened to the kits after they left their custody.
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HealthLeaders Media
Nearly 57 million adult Americans have a substance abuse or mental health condition, and nearly 40 million of them go untreated, according to data cited by the Government Accountability Office."Not treating behavioral health conditions can lead to other healthcare costs, such as the costs of emergency care for an overdose," GAO said in a recent report. "However, GAO found that research on such costs is limited and there is no generally accepted estimate of all the healthcare costs associated with untreated behavioral health conditions."
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Medpage Today
A therapeutic vaccine eradicated human papillomavirus in a fourth of women with precancerous cervical lesions, a placebo-controlled clinical trial showed.
Overall, the subcutaneously administered vaccine led to clearance of precancerous cervical lesions in 24 percent of women who tested positive for one or more HPV strains, as compared with 10 percent in patients who received placebo injections.
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Rutgers Today
Rutgers researchers have defined the relationship that forms between children who are sold for sex and the criminals who traffic them.
The discovery should make it easier for law enforcement and healthcare providers to identify child victims, rescue them and help them reenter society. About one million children are victims of sex trafficking worldwide.
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Forensic Science, Statistics & The Law
A few days ago, a U.S. District Court held Srinubabu Gedela and his companies, the OMICS Group, Inc., iMedPub, and Conference Series, liable for over $50 million. It also issued a permanent injunction against many deceptive practices on the part of this nest of companies and the various other entities through which they operate (such as Allied Academies, Meetings International, and Pulsus).
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Warwick News & Events
Researchers from WMG at The University of Warwick have used a high resolution X-ray (micro-CT) scanner, a novel 3D imaging technology more commonly employed in industry and materials research, to scan nine-week old Teri-Rae’s rib cage.
The scans image with one thousand times of the detail of a hospital scanner, meaning they were able to detect two more microscopic injuries which could otherwise have been missed by conventional medical CT scanners.
The evidence produced helped reveal a total of ten injuries of varying ages. 3D renderings of these injuries were shown during trial to provide visual context and support the bone specialist’s expert testimony.
This secured a guilty verdict for the charge of manslaughter for Teri-Rae’s mother Abigail Palmer, who has been sentenced as of April 4, 2019.
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Pennsylvania State University
Parents in the midst of a psychologically or physically aggressive argument tend to also be aggressive with their children, according to researchers at Penn State. The team found that this "spillover" of aggression toward children causes kids to exhibit greater fear during future incidents of interparental aggression, regardless of the severity of those future incidents, than children who do not experience this spillover effect.
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CNN
The chief of the British Army has attacked the "downright unacceptable" behavior of soldiers after recent allegations — including claims of sexual assault — raised questions over troops' conduct.
"This hasn't been a good week for the Army — it's damaged our reputation," Chief of the General Staff Mark Carleton-Smith acknowledged in an extraordinary video statement.
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