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IAFN2020 Virtual Conference Registration Has Been Extended
The IAFN2020 Virtual Conference is now open and registration has been extended! Now more than ever, forensic nursing professionals must come together to innovate, collaborate, and focus on the future. Through the new virtual exhibit hall and a variety of educational and networking opportunities, we will create, learn, and connect. Join us for a one-of-kind learning experience! Registration ends November 1.
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Forensic Nurses Week 2020
Forensic Nurses Week is just over one month away! How will you celebrate? A planning guide, poster, web banners, thank you notes, and more are available for download. Learn more.
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Fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in US more than three times as high as in whites
British Medical Journal via Medical Xpress
The rate of fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in the U.S. is more than three times as high as it is among white people, finds research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
And the total numbers of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour killed in police shootings hasn't budged over the past five years, prompting the researchers to describe the figures as a "public health emergency."
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US launches new center to fight human trafficking
U.S. Embassy in Georgia
The U.S. government is committed to ending human trafficking and is launching a new center dedicated to combating this horrific crime.
“Human trafficking is modern-day slavery,” said Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf on Oct. 20 at the launch of the Center for Countering Human Trafficking. “There is no other way to say it.”
The center is the U.S. government’s first integrated law enforcement operations center focused on human trafficking to support federal criminal, civil and administrative investigations, victim assistance efforts and intelligence analysis, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Slavery and trafficking occurs in 90% of recent wars and conflicts, new research shows
ScienMag
Research by the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab has identified that slavery and human trafficking are present in 90 percent of modern wars.
Modern slavery experts Professor Kevin Bales, Angharad Smith and Dr Monti Narayan Datta spent four years building the now open-access online database, recording every case and type of slavery across 171 wars and conflicts fought between 1989 and 2016. It is the first systematic and large-scale inquiry into various types of enslavement within modern armed conflicts.
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The pandemic has created a second crisis in India — the rise of child trafficking
CNN
In India, children are allowed to work from the age of 14, but only in family-related businesses and never in hazardous conditions. But the country's economy has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and many have lost their jobs, leading some families to allow their children to work to bring in anything they can. In recent years, India has strengthened its laws on child labor, but in the past six months — with COVID-19 taking a toll on the economy — that work has started to unravel.
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Increasing sleep time after trauma could ease ill effects, study finds
Washington State University via Medical Xpress
Increasing the amount of time spent asleep immediately after a traumatic experience may ease any negative consequences, suggests a new study conducted by researchers at Washington State University's Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
Published in Scientific Reports, the study helps build a case for the use of sleep therapeutics following trauma exposure, said William Vanderheyden, an assistant research professor and the lead author on the study. "Basically, our study has found that if you can improve sleep, you can improve function."
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UB researchers help identify biomarker for concussions in saliva
UB Now
In a landmark study led by Steven Hicks of Penn State College of Medicine, researchers from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, along with peers from other institutions, found that a combination of biomarkers in saliva can help objectively and accurately diagnose mild traumatic brain injury.
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DNA sleuths target ivory poachers
Flinders University via PhysOrg
Professor Adrian Linacre at Flinders University is part of a team that focuses on developing forensic DNA technology to thwart a thriving global black market in exotic animals—and the significance of this new test working so effectively on such a difficult substance as ivory is especially significant, showing the power and accuracy of this investigation technique.
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