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National Institute of Standards and Technology via PhysOrg
NIST has published Draft NISTIR 8225, Scientific Foundation Reviews. This publication describes NIST's approach to conducting scientific foundation reviews, which seek to document and evaluate the body of scientific data underpinning forensic science methods. NIST requests that readers submit comments, which will be considered when producing a final version of the document.
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Domestic violence awareness month begins on Monday, Oct. 1! It’s a great time to bring awareness to the role of Forensic Nurses as the essential component of healthcare’s response to violence and trauma. Check out nrcdv.org/dvam/1thing for resources and an action guide. As a special thank you to members, IAFN is offering the recorded session Beyond Screening for Domestic Violence: Assessing Risk, Dangerousness, and Lethality in Response to Domestic Violence at no cost to members in the month of October.
Members – Watch for the email from DirectVote and please remember to vote!
IAFN released a Call to Action earlier this week, asking healthcare providers, policy makers, and members of the public to treat all survivors in a trauma-informed manner. “As forensic nurses who have listened to the histories of thousands of sexual assault survivors, we know that making a public disclosure of sexual assault can be an extremely difficult thing to do. We also know that the majority of survivors either delay giving a disclosure or in many cases never disclose. As a professional nursing organization representing more than 4,300 nurses who provide specialized care to patients who are victims of violence and trauma, the International Association of Forensic Nurses is asking healthcare providers, policy makers, and members of the public to treat all survivors in a trauma-informed manner.” Read more.

This year, Forensic Nurses Week will be celebrated November 5-9. The 2018 Planning Guide is now available.
Join IAFN’s SAFEta/KIDSta projects for a webinar on Oct. 3 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. After reviewing the historical relevance of the National Training Standards and outlining the foundational documents used to develop them, the webinar will describe the recommendations contained with the Revised National Training Standards for adult/adolescent and pediatric sexual assault medical forensic examiners. Register Today.

The IAFN Foundation is seeking applications from IAFN members to serve on the Foundation Board of Directors. If you are energetic, passionate, and dedicated, please login, learn more and complete the online application here. Please apply by October 31st, 2018.
University of Montreal via Medical Xpress
Students who witness violence in school at age 13 are at later risk of psycho-social and academic impairment at age 15, according to a new longitudinal study by researchers at Université de Montréal with colleagues in Belgium and France. The researchers statistically tested the relationship between witnessing school violence in Grade 8 and subsequent antisocial behavior (drug use, delinquency), emotional distress (social anxiety, depressive symptoms), and academic adjustment (school achievement, engagement) in Grade 10. They also compared the relative contribution of differing forms of witnessing school violence and compared them to experiencing violence directly over the long term.
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NPR
Guiding her cart down an aisle of a Virginia grocery store, Leigh Michel attracts more attention than the average shopper. "Do you know where the dog food is?" one man asks her. This kind of attention makes her uneasy.
The man assumes Michel would know the answer because her service dog, an English black Labrador named Lizzy, is walking at her side. "Without [Lizzy], I wouldn't even be talking to the cashier," Michel says as she approaches the checkout. "So I guess she's actually kind of my trainer, getting me to talk to people."
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CNN
India is to launch a national register of sex offenders in a bid to combat a rise in reports of sexual violence against women and children, following nationwide outrage over a string of high-profile gang rape cases.
The National Database of Sexual Offenders, which will be accessible only to law enforcement agencies, currently contains the details of more than 440,000 offenders convicted of rape, gang rape, child sex crimes and sexual harassment, according to a home ministry statement.
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Buzzfeed News
Margaret Press and Colleen Fitzpatrick are the founders of the nonprofit DNA Doe Project, a network of genealogists volunteering their time to help law enforcement agencies solve cold cases. They deploy the same technique — genetic genealogy, or using DNA to fill in the blanks on a family tree — that led to the April 2018 arrest of California’s suspected Golden State Killer, and then to the capture of cold-case perps around the country, seemingly every other week.
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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania via Medical Xpress
A therapeutic vaccine can boost antibodies and T cells, helping them infiltrate tumors and fight off human papillomavirus-related head and neck cancer. Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania tested the immunotherapy approach in two groups of patients with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and found 86 percent showed elevated T cell activity. It is also the first study to show that the vaccine can help immune cells infiltrate tumors.
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The Daily Sentinel
For years, Park County, Colorado Coroner David Kintz Jr. and forensics student Chrissie Baigent joked that whatever the textbooks said, chances were that the truth was the exact opposite in their death investigations. The high-altitude environment with its dry air, intense ultraviolet sunshine and temperature swings resulted in different patterns of decomposition for bodies exposed to the elements. These patterns had virtually nothing in common with the research cited in textbooks, based on the work and observations of bodies that decomposed at facilities located in hot, humid, low elevations.
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TIME
A newly released Pentagon study revealed that many sexual assaults in the U.S. military occur across the globe at a relatively small number of bases and naval ships, including some installations where more than 500 incidents occurred in a single year.
The 119-page study, conducted by Rand Corporation, surveyed American service members to uncover where troops were most at risk of sexual assault and harassment. In many cases, installations with large populations of younger, single, and more-junior-ranking service members had a greater probability of these incidents occurring.
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The Hill
Jeff Solheim writes, "In May, I had the privilege of introducing U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna to 160 emergency nurses who gathered in Washington, D.C. to advocate for legislation promoting a safe workplace for health care employees.
Because Rep. Khanna sponsored a bill — The Healthcare Workplace Violence Prevention Act — designed to better protect workers in the health care settings, it seemed appropriate for me to show him the extent of the problem."
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BBC
London's violent crime is to be treated as a public health issue, the city's mayor has said.
The capital saw its 100th homicide so far this year on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
Sadiq Khan said a Violence Reduction Unit would mirror the approach taken in Glasgow, where violence is treated as "a disease infecting communities". However, Steve O'Connell, the chairman of the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, said there was a "worrying lack of detail" about the plan.
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CNN
Being pushed into a room, thrown onto a bed and groped: those are the kinds of details that get embedded in a sexual assault survivor's memory.
Peripheral information, like what day it was or what someone wore, may fall away or grow fuzzy, especially with time. But the most distressing moments get "locked in" and remain "very salient," explained Dean Kilpatrick, a clinical psychologist and director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.
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Pennsylvania State University via Medical Xpress
Children who suffer childhood sexual abuse early are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors, adolescent pregnancy, and teenage motherhood, according to new Penn State research. The findings are important, because becoming a mother during adolescence can have consequences for not only the mother, but her child, said Jennie Noll, professor of human development and family studies, director of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network, and co-funded faculty member of the Social Science Research Institute.
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CBC News
Changes are coming to the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia to improve worker safety in the wake of a wave of patient-on-staff violence.
The Provincial Health Services Authority says it is increasing staffing levels and expanding security and training at the 190-bed facility which treats those who have been found either unfit to stand trial or not criminally responsible for a crime due to mental illness.
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