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Tulane University via Medical Xpress
A new study led by an infectious disease epidemiologist at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine could change the way doctors treat a common sexually transmitted disease.
Professor Patricia Kissinger and a team of researchers found the recommended single dose of medication isn't enough to eliminate trichomoniasis, the most common curable STD, which can cause serious birth complications and make people more susceptible to HIV. Results of the research are published in Lancet Infectious Diseases.
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This year, Forensic Nurses Week will be celebrated Nov. 5-9. The 2018 Planning Guide is now available.
Members – Check your inbox for the email from DirectVote, review the candidate information, and remember to vote!
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We are pleased to announce IAFN’s collaboration with Springer Publishing Company to author IAFN Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Certification: A Guide to the SANE-A® and SANE-P® Exams. This book will prepare nurses to sit for either or both of the SANE board certification exams and will include at least 300 test questions. We are currently looking for SANE-certified contributing writers. Learn more about eligibility requirements.
Planning to join us in Reno? Make sure to register in advance! We cannot accept any walk-ins or onsite registrations. Come hear amazing speakers, view a powerful documentary screening, engage in peer-to-peer learning opportunities and so much more! Join us in Reno.
PhysOrg
Modern DNA forensic science is capable of analysing microscopic genetic traces inadvertently left at crime scenes.
In fact, a single tap of a finger on items like door handles, glass or even shaking hands can help identify and link potential suspects to a crime.
But accurate identification depends on the quality of DNA sourced at the scene.
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Brown University via Medical Xpress
A new analysis by researchers from Brown University and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation has found that nonfatal injuries in the U.S. in the year 2013 cost more than $1.8 trillion.
And nearly all injures are preventable, said Dr. Mark Zonfrillo, an associate professor at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital.
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PhysOrg
Social media is increasingly being exploited to contact, recruit and sell children for sex, according to a study by The University of Toledo Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute.
The study, which was requested by the Ohio Attorney General's Human Trafficking Commission, reveals how traffickers quickly target and connect with vulnerable children on the Internet through social media.
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National Institutes of Health
Traumatic head injury can have widespread effects in the brain, but now scientists can look in real time at how head injury affects thousands of individual cells and genes simultaneously in mice. This approach could lead to precise treatments for traumatic brain injury. The study, reported in Nature Communications, was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Natasha Abadilla writes, "Stanford med school saved my life. Not in the metaphorical way, but in a very literal way. If I didn’t start medical school when I did, there is a high chance I wouldn’t be alive today.
I struggled writing this piece because only a small handful of people know my story. By the time you’re done reading these 800 or so words, you’ll know only part of it, but what I hope you take away from it is this: domestic violence victims can come in all shapes and sizes."
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The Washington Post
Anna Chambers turned her car into the shadowed driveway of a park in Gravesend, Brooklyn. It was dusk at lower New York Bay, and the 18-year-old hadn’t noticed two men step out of a nearby van with blacked-out windows.
They were in street clothes but had shields displayed around their necks, indicating that they were police. Eddie Martins and Richie Hall, both detectives with a Brooklyn narcotics unit, approached the coupe and asked Chambers and her two male passengers to step out.
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Bureau of Justice Assistance
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance has announced 32 awards under FY2018 Sexual Assault Kit Initiative funding. Awards will cover a wide variety of activities including inventorying and testing sexual assault kits, investigations and prosecutions, victim support, and collection of lawfully owed DNA samples from offenders. This announcement was just one factor driving this week’s media coverage of the tracking, processing, and the backlog of Medical Forensic Exam Kits in states including Connecticut, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Washington, and Utah.
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European College of Neuropsychopharmacology via Medical Xpress
DNA from people who suffer from major depression is biologically older than that of healthy people by on average 8 months, suggesting that they are biologically older than their corresponding calendar age. This effect was greater in people who have had childhood trauma, such as violence, neglect or sexual abuse, who show a biological age around a year older than their actual age. This work was presented at the ECNP conference in Barcelona.
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