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It is critically important that untested and destroyed sexual assault evidence kits remain a topic of public scrutiny—not only to call attention to the problem, but also to encourage dialogue leading to systemwide improvement in treating victims of sexual assault. Equally important, however, is that the sexual assault medical forensic examination not be portrayed as traumatic or retraumatizing, nor as solely focused on that person’s body as a “crime scene.”
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IAFN Members are invited to join us on Dec. 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM for the second webinar in the five part series on the Medical-Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers. Register now for part two - The Clinical Interview & Considerations for Vulnerable Populations.
The IAFN Conference Planning Committee is currently seeking volunteer members for the 2019 Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is a great opportunity to give back to the forensic nursing community, shape vital continuing education, and work directly with your national and international peers. Deadline to apply: Dec. 14, 2018.
The editors of the Journal of Forensic Nursing invite interested colleagues to consider a volunteer position on the Journal's Editorial Board. Vacancies include one member position and one international member position (i.e. outside of Canada and the United States).
Washington, DC (Nov. 29, 2018) — The American Academy of Nursing today released its policy brief on the nursing response to human trafficking. An estimated 12 to 30 million people are trafficked and exploited for labor or sex, which represents a major public health emergency “resulting in poor immediate, intermediate, and long-term health outcomes” for the victim. During a given year, 85 percent of trafficked persons will have access to healthcare providers. Nurses, as frontline health providers, are critical to: identifying trafficked victims; promoting of physical, mental, and cognitive health; developing and implementing practice guidelines and research for healthcare; and advocating public policy initiatives on local, state, national, and international levels.
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Chicago Tribune
When a young woman was admitted to an Arizona hospital for stomach surgery two years ago, she never imagined the scars she'd leave with would be emotional ones. After the anesthesia wore off a resident informed her that physicians and medical students performed a nonconsensual pelvic exam on her. A survivor of sexual assault, the patient said she was "in shock" and felt betrayed by her physician.
Teaching medical students to identify abnormalities by probing a woman’s vagina and cervix — without express consent — can be stopped easily. Yet, the practice persists because the controversy it periodically sparks dies out eventually. And, like clockwork, attending physicians and medical educators resume using women like test dummies — stripping them of the right to decide who touches their bodies.
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NPR
For trauma surgeon Joseph Sakran, gun violence is a very personal issue. He has treated hundreds of gun wound victims, comforted anxious loved ones and told mothers and fathers that their children would not be coming home.
But Sakran's empathy for his patients and their families extends beyond the hospital. Sakran knows the pain of gun violence because he is a survivor of it; when he was 17, he took a bullet to the throat after a high school football game.
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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force via Medical Xpress
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concludes that the evidence on the benefits and harms of primary care interventions for preventing child maltreatment is currently inadequate. These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published online Nov. 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Meera Viswanathan, Ph.D., from RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and colleagues conducted a systematic review to update evidence on interventions provided in or referable from primary care to prevent child maltreatment. Data from 22 trials with 11,132 participants were included.
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Chemistry World
UK researchers have developed a new analytical method to detect bodily fluids and estimate their age. The mass spectrometry-based technique avoids the need for sample preparation and contamination tests, and could be used by crime scene investigators to analyze samples on the spot.
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Times Live
A survey of 135 health facilities designated to care for survivors of sexual violence in South Africa found that nearly half do not offer counselling services to child survivors of rape, and one in five offer no counselling services at all.
This is according to a new Untreated Violence report by Doctors Without Borders, confirming critical gaps in the provision and availability of mental healthcare for survivors of sexual violence, especially regarding the poor.
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High Country News
A week after the Camp Fire began, the ruins of Paradise, California, still smoldered in the faint morning light. Along a winding street in the town’s center, the sun was a well-defined orange circle reflected in the swimming pool of an incinerated home. At another address, a statue of a swan spread its wings above a melted porch lamp and two charred concrete angels.
Nearby, in the parking lot of the Tall Pines Entertainment Center, a miraculously intact bowling alley, hundreds gathered to prepare for another day of searching.
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Bustle
Every 40 minutes, a Russian woman is killed through domestic violence, according to the government's own numbers. Despite this, Russia decriminalized domestic violence in 2017, drastically lessening the penalty for Russians who assault their spouses or children. Now, a human rights official in Russia who supported the decriminalization bill is admitting that it was a "mistake," and is calling for legislation to protect victims of domestic abuse.
“I believe that decriminalization was a mistake and we need to adopt a law to combat domestic abuse,” Russia's Human Rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said at a conference, according to the Moscow Times. "Today, a person who is in the family space is not protected from family members who do harm unto them without it being considered a crime."
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Newsweek
A Spanish court has cleared two men who had nonconsensual sex with a woman of rape because their actions weren’t “violent” enough to warrant such a verdict.
The victim’s “vulnerable nature” and prior alcohol intake allowed the pair to have sex with her without resorting to violent acts, the ruling said, according to the BBC.
The court jailed the men for sexual abuse rather than sexual assault—Spain's legal equivalent to rape.
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NBC News
Abigail Mentzer was riding the New York City subway to a doctor’s appointment when she says an AirDrop request popped up on her iPhone. A preview image of the file showed a CD with the handwritten message, “Songs I’ll choke you out to while wrecking your uterus.”
Feeling disgusted and threatened, she looked around the train car, wondering who had sent it. Then, three more messages came through, including images of a woman’s bare behind and more offensive language.
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WFYI
Global warming could hinder forensic investigations in Indiana. That’s because of the climate’s effect on two species of flies. Forensic entomologists use the age of their larvae to determine time of death — usually by measuring the maggots.
The blow fly Lucilia cuprina is typical in southern states from Virginia to California, but global warming is moving the flies north. IUPUI researchers found the fly in Indiana for the first time. That could be a problem for Indiana forensic investigators that are used to seeing the fly’s sister species, Lucilia sericata.
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TechXplore
As the year draws to a close, Amazon is making more noise in the medical sector with software that lends meaning to seas of unharnessed medical data. This should not come as a surprise for those following Amazon's interest in leveraging its talents focused on artificial intelligence and even cloud technology.
The news is that Amazon has announced it has software capable of mining medical records in ways that can help doctors, medical teams and hospitals. News reports on Tuesday said Amazon has software that can mine patient medical records. The software can help make sense of information so that medical professionals can make better decisions.
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Science Magazine
DNA is an increasingly useful crime-solving tool. But still quite unclear is the extent to which law enforcement should be able to obtain genetic data housed in public and private databases. How one answers that question might vary substantially, depending on the source of the data.
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