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The National Law Review
On Nov. 21, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1309, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, in a 251-158 vote.
HR 1309 would direct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to (1) adopt an interim final standard on workplace violence prevention in the health care and social service industries within one year of its enactment, (2) promulgate a proposed final standard within two years of enactment, and (3) issue a final standard within 42 months of enactment. If OSHA fails to timely adopt an interim final standard, which is likely, then the onerous provisions set forth in the bill would go into effect.
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UN Women
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until Dec. 10, Human Rights Day.
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Boston University School of Medicine via Medical Xpress
Although the magnitude of firearm deaths has remained constant since 2001, a new study has found that deaths have increased since 2014.
An examination of years of life lost due to guns showed there has been a slow increase in years of life lost due to guns since 1999 with a sudden and large increase since 2014. "A constant mortality rate with increasing percentage of years of potential life lost indicates that although the magnitude of firearm deaths remained the same, the deaths were increasingly premature or among younger people across time," explained corresponding author Bindu Kalesan, Ph.D., MPH, assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.
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Fenway Health
The Fenway Institute released a new report on emerging best practices in the management of LGBTI people in correctional settings at the State House on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
Report co-author Timothy Wang, Senior Policy Analyst at The Fenway Institute, moderated a panel discussion about key recommendations in the report, which is titled “Emerging Best Practices for the Management and Treatment of Incarcerated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Individuals.”
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University of British Columbia via Medical Xpress
While the diagnoses and treatment of sport-related concussion have well-established guidelines and protocols, a new study from UBC's Okanagan campus is looking at what has previously been an understudied group — women survivors of intimate partner violence.
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University of Oxford via EurekAlert!
Women who spend longer periods of their early lives in less affluent neighbourhoods are at greater risk of experiencing violence during their early adulthoods at the hands of their intimate partners, finds a new study published in Epidemiology.
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WHO
In the central-west Indian State of Maharashtra, health professionals are pioneering better way to prevent, root-out and respond to violence against women.
One in three women experience intimate partner violence or sexual violence in their lifetimes. Yet, in the past, survivors seeking medical care here were patched up and sent home without further help.
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Popular Mechanics
Science reports that scientists have identified people using short lengths of a single hair strand, without attached follicle or skin cells. The published results appear in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, explaining a new technique that requires about one percent of the previous threshold for making a hair match. The scientists used spectral analysis to compare data they obtained by running pulverized hair through a mass spectrometer.
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