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Newsweek
A June study in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology found there’s a “wide range” of what constitutes a “normal” vulva — and no two female genitalia are exactly alike.
In an analysis of more than 650 women ages 15 to 84, Swiss researchers measured various genitalia, including the clitoris, labia majora and labia minora, and found that vulval appearance differed significantly woman to woman. While the average labia minora, or inner labia, was about an inch long, lengths varied from one-tenth of an inch to more than 3 inches.
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Applications will be accepted through 4:59PM Eastern Time on Thursday July 12, 2018. To learn more, download the September 2018 Certification Examination Handbook or visit the “Take the Exam” page at www.ForensicNurses.org.
Register today for the International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice happening October 24-27, 2018 in Reno, NV. This year’s Keynote presenters include:
- Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, author and founder and director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute
- Jerome Elam, CEO of the Trafficking in America Task Force
- Valerie Hudson, Director of the Women, Peace, and Security Program at Texas A&M University
- Shanna Kohn of Sesame Workshop, speaking on Children Displaced by Conflict and Persecution
NPR
The night a gunman fired into a crowd of 22,000 people at the country music festival in Las Vegas in 2017, nursing supervisor Antoinette Mullan at University Medical Center was focused on one thing: saving lives.
She recalls dead bodies on gurneys across the triage floor, a trauma bay full of victims. But "in that moment, we're not aware of anything else but taking care of what's in front of us," Mullan says.
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BBC News
Brisa de Angulo is one of the winners of the Outlook Inspirations Awards 2018 for her work helping young survivors of sexual abuse. At the age of 15, she was raped by one of her extended family members. When she finally found the courage to tell the police, she was ostracised and her case was sent to an agricultural and livestock court. After a traumatic experience in court, Brisa decided to set up A Breeze of Hope, a charity which provides medical, social and legal services to young rape survivors.
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ABC News AU
A landmark investigation into female medical staff in Australia has found nearly half have experienced domestic violence, including one in 10 who had been abused by their partner in the past year alone. The study, published in the BMC Women's Health journal, involved 471 doctors, nurses and health professionals in Victoria and is believed to be the first to examine the link between domestic violence and female medical staff.
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Women's Media Center
Over the years, Magistrate Judge Harrison Adika has heard more sexualized violence cases than he can count at courts in Nyeri and Kisumu in central Kenya. But Adika says many defendants facing such charges in his court have walked free for lack of evidence — until recently.
Things began to change in 2012, when Adika received specialized training in how to try sexualized violence crimes. “Training opened my eyes,” says Adika.
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CNN
Someone's desire to commit a physical or sexually violent act may be stopped with a quick physical intervention in the brain, according to new research.
It's early in the work, but scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Nanyang Tech University believe that they figured it out with a small experiment that involved stimulating the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that is involved in complex thought and decision-making. The results were published in this week's JNeurosci journal.
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BuzzFeed News
A woman who discovered after being sexually assaulted that any counselling notes could be used against her in court has launched a campaign to stop lawyers from having access to this information.
Eve Crawford, a 24-year-old actor from London, was seriously assaulted in July 2016. She reported it to police a year later. Her attacker was jailed in April this year, but she is still waiting for counselling.
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Politico
Violence is growing in American ERs, fed by patient anger over their inability to get painkillers and rising health care bills, as well as the proliferation of gangs and untreated mental illness.
“I got a black eye in a psych room when a patient pushed me against the wall and punched me repeatedly,” said physician Anne Zink, recounting events that occurred over several weeks at the emergency department of her hospital, the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer, Alaska.
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Korea Biomedical Review
More than 400 physicians rallied on the street in central Seoul over the weekend, demanding the government help root out violence against medical workers. The gathering came after a patient assaulted an emergency room (ER) doctor in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, early last week.
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National Geographic
British researchers have tested a method to lift fingerprints from the scales of pangolins, an endangered ant-eating animal believed to be the most trafficked mammal in the world. Using standard gelatin lifters — small sheets with adhesive on one side commonly used by crime scene investigators to collect fingerprints and other trace evidence — researchers with the University of Portsmouth in England and the nonprofit Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have successfully lifted clear fingerprints off pangolin scales.
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ReliefWeb
“Very bad things happen during religious festivals. Most community members go to join in the ceremonies, and those women who remain at home are very vulnerable. Perpetrators find out who has stayed behind — often widows — and go into their homes and violate the women. There are no locks on the doors, no protection. For a few hours, everywhere is deserted, and there is no-one who can hear or heed calls for help.”
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