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Kaiser Health News
Suicide death rates among teenagers and young adults have increased at an alarming pace in the past decade, according to a new government report. While suicide has steadily become more common across the population, the increase among youths has outpaced all other age groups.
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Were you last SANE-A® or SANE-P® certified in 2016? This is your year to renew! November 1, 2019 is the last day to accrue CE and file on time. See the renewal page for details and apply online.
Duquesne University School of Education
The forensic nursing community has long known that the lack of expert Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) throughout the country has been a major barrier regarding attempts to increase the number of SANEs. Many nurses complete the didactic SANE course, but then find it difficult to identify an expert SANE in their clinical area who can then mentor them through their first exams with a patient who has been sexually assaulted. The mentor would then be available to them to answer their questions as they begin to accumulate their required hours and expertise in order to sit for the certification exam. For those nurses who do not have a SANE mentor where they work, there are clinical courses that are sometimes offered at a site where the nurse can attend a 2-3 day hands on experience in order to learn how to conduct an exam.
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The New Yorker
Rachel Pearson writes, "On a cool spring afternoon, in a clinic that serves refugee and immigrant families, I sit across from a teen-age girl. She is otherwise known as an unaccompanied alien child, or U.A.C. She left her home in Central America, crossed the southern border, and was detained for a week—in Texas, she thinks—in a facility where breakfast was a cold bean burrito, lunch was a cup of microwavable noodle soup, and dinner was a cold bean burrito. She says that the detention facility was fine—no, nothing bad happened. Yes, it was only girls. Her main complaint is that she was not allowed to brush her teeth."
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The United States Department of Justice
On Sept. 24, the Department of Justice announced its Interim Policy on forensic genetic genealogy, an emerging investigative technique that will combine technological advancements in DNA analysis and searching with traditional geneology research. FGG is a unique investigative method that can generate leads used by law enforcement to not only identify unknown suspects but to help identify the remains of homicide victims.
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Journal Sentinel
More than half of the people who were perpetrators or victims of gun violence in Milwaukee in recent years had elevated blood lead levels as children, according to a study released by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The study of nearly 90,000 residents, conducted at the University's Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, suggests a link between early childhood lead exposure and gun violence in later years.
Lindsay R. Emer, the study's lead author, said it was conducted using public health, education and criminal justice data.
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Chemical & Engineering News
On an April day in 2001, Candice Bridge ran out of a storefront in the middle of the night, chasing a medical examiner’s van down the streets of Washington, DC.
“I need to talk to you,” she said, surprising the man behind the wheel. It was 1:00 a.m.
“I could have shot you,” he scolded.
This man’s job was to pick up bodies at unkind hours, often under unkind circumstances. A woman running toward him in the dark was odd at best and dangerous at worst. But Bridge was getting desperate, and when she saw him, impulse took over. Maybe, just maybe, she thought, he could help.
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Witness LA
A growing body of dozens of studies and reports has revealed the far-reaching negative effects of childhood exposure to crime and violence on the wellbeing of individuals, families, and society.
Now, researchers have endeavored to put a price tag on all that trauma. Childhood exposure to violence costs the United States an estimated $458 billion per year, according to a report by Michal Gilad, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Abraham Gutman. And that estimation, they say, is likely a conservative one.
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The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Intimate partner abuse can have long-lasting effects. Even when the abuse happens early in one’s life, the damage may carry through until old age and can lead to heightened risk of depression and thoughts of suicide.
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California Medical Association
A new study out of the University of California, Davis, Firearm Violence Research Center shows that Californians find gun safety conversations that take place in the exam room appropriate if a patient has access to a gun and the patient — or someone in the patient’s home — is at increased risk for firearm-related harm, such as trouble with drug or alcohol misuse.
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Pbysician's Briefing
Most office-based physicians who provide sexually transmitted infections services report not having on-site access to the recommended injectable medications for same-day treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis, according to a research letter published in the November issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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American Heart Association
Younger adults with post-traumatic stress disorder are more likely to have a stroke by middle age, according to a new study in veterans. The heightened risk in some cases surpasses that from well-known factors such as diabetes, obesity and smoking.
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NYU Langone Health via Medical Xpress
A new study in rats shows the extent of brain damage in newborn rodents from even short-term abuse by their mother.
Past studies in animals and humans have established how a mother's abuse can lead to brain shrinkage in her infants' amygdala and hippocampus, parts of the brain that process fear and memory, researchers say.
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