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The recent deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have thrust the issue of suicide into the spotlight. And for good reason. New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that suicide rates are rising in every state, and in 2016 nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older died by suicide.
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Join IAFN’s KIDSta and SAFEta projects on June 19, 2018 for a webinar on Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Sexual Assault: Finding the Zebra.
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The application window is now open for the September 2018 Certification Exam. To learn more, download the September 2018 Certification Examination Handbook or visit the “Take the Exam” page at www.ForensicNurses.org. Apply by July 5, 2018.
ScienceDaily
Trauma experienced by a parent during childhood has long-reaching consequences — maybe even to the point of negatively impacting their own children's health, a new Drexel University study found. "It is well known that adverse childhood experiences can lead to serious and wide-ranging effects on the health of the people who go through them," said Félice Lê-Scherban, PhD, the study's lead researcher and an assistant professor in Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health.
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Star-Tribune
Teen pregnancy and birth rates might have reached historic lows in Minnesota in 2016, but sexual abuse and relationship violence could undermine further progress.
Nearly one in five 11th-graders reported some form of relationship violence in 2016, and nearly one in 10 specifically reported sexual violence, according to the annual adolescent sexual health report released by the University of Minnesota.
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Nashville Public Radio
Victims of sexual violence in the Nashville area no longer have to go to the hospital if they need the free forensics exam known as a rape kit. A new facility, called the SAFE Clinic, has opened, as part of the city’s Sexual Assault Center.
It doesn't provide emergency care, but the majority of rape victims don't need that. But they could benefit from therapy. Or — if they decide to report their assailant — advocacy and legal resources.
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Science Magazine
A systemwide change to the culture and climate in higher education is needed to prevent and effectively respond to sexual harassment, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. There is no evidence that current policies, procedures, and approaches – which often focus on symbolic compliance with the law and on avoiding liability — have resulted in a significant reduction in sexual harassment.
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CNN
On one hot summer night in 2016, Rani went to bed in her hut near the banks of the Yamuna River in Delhi.
Normally, she would have slept outside, where a breeze could provide some relief, but she did not feel well and had taken medicine that made her drowsy.
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KUER-TV
Today, Utah becomes the second state in the Mountain West to implement a system that lets victims check the status of their rape kits online.
Rape kits provide evidence for investigators after a sexual assault. But they often go untested or have high backlogs at police forensic units around the country. Now, a new database in Utah is allowing victims of sexual assault to track the kits as they travel from police department to forensic nurse to crime lab.
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USA Today
DNA testing packages are becoming increasingly popular, especially as gifts, but the sensitivity of the genetic information they collect has raised privacy alarms.
Now add hacking to that list of concerns.
DNA testing site MyHeritage said this week that more than 92 million users' email addresses and hashed passwords had been stolen, affecting any user who had signed up until Oct. 26.
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NPR
Cathy Umba carries a camouflage-print backpack everywhere she goes. The mother of four can't read or write, but a stack of papers inside the backpack are her shield — they're proof that she has a court order protecting her from her ex-husband.
Umba, who puts her age near 42, got the court order last year, after her abusive husband tried to force her to return to him.
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Neuro Science News
In a new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, researchers from UBC’s Okanagan campus have discovered that men who have used psychedelic drugs in the past have a lower likelihood of engaging in violence against their intimate partners.
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Military
His assailants were relentless.
Heath Phillips was 17 — a fresh young sailor on his first Navy ship. There, a gang of six sailors zeroed in on their prey, raping, beating and sodomizing him repeatedly. He tried reporting them, but for 45 days, his superiors shrugged off his complaints and sent him back for more.
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