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CNN
Gun deaths in America have reached a record high.
Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns last year, marking the highest number of gun deaths in decades, according to a new analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database.
A similar analysis was first conducted by the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, a non-profit gun policy advocacy group.
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On Dec. 12, incoming IAFN Board president, Sara Jennings, spoke on behalf of IAFN at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Examining the availability of SAFE Kits at Hospitals in the United States. Read IAFN’s written testimony or view the recorded video.
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Join us on Jan. 22, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern to learn how the National TeleNursing Center piloted the use of Video Conferencing Technology to support SANE/SAFE and emergency department clinicians caring for sexual assault patients across three states with diverse communities (tribal, rural, military). Free for members. Register today.
Harvard Health Publishing
Eve Valera, PhD, writes, "While studying brain injuries in the mid-1990s, I began volunteering in a domestic violence shelter. I noticed that the abuse and problems many women reported were consistent with possibly experiencing concussions. Women reported many acts of violence that could cause trauma to the brain, as well as many post-concussive symptoms. Shockingly, my search for literature on this topic yielded zero results.
When I decided to focus my graduate work on this topic, I was even more shocked by what I learned from women who had experienced intimate partner violence. Of the 99 women I interviewed, 75 percent reported at least one traumatic brain injury sustained from their partners and about half reported more than one — oftentimes many more than one."
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Medecins sans Frontieres
Yolanda Hanning, mental health manager for MSF's Rustenberg project, writes, "As a psychologist with a Médecins Sans Frontières sexual and gender-based violence project in South Africa’s “platinum belt”, I recently dealt with the case of a woman I shall call Candice.
After being gang-raped, Candice reported to a provincial hospital, where she explained to an assistant that she had been thinking about taking her own life.
The assessment of suicidality should be included within screening questionnaires at health facilities, and patients presenting symptoms should be admitted for care and linked to a psychologist or psychiatrist without delay.
Candice was not assessed, however. Nor was she appropriately cared for. She was instead made to wait all night to see a health provider, sitting in a metal chair surrounded by the sick and injured."
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JAMA
Physicians have long lent their voices to issues of concern to the health of the public, many of which were politically and socially controversial at the time. Physician organizations were instrumental in formulating recommendations that led to policies around alcohol and driving. Such policies are normative in much of the world today, contributing to reductions in motor vehicle–related morbidity and mortality and resulting in one of the greatest public health triumphs of the 20th century. Physicians have been deeply involved in advocacy around tobacco control, resulting in comprehensive tobacco legislation that has contributed to substantial declines in tobacco-related morbidity and mortality over the past decades.
Physicians have also been engaged in what is perhaps one of the most pressing and contentious issues of the present moment: gun violence.
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News-Medical
Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is often referred to as the "invisible injury" — while on the surface everything seems normal with brain structure, symptoms may present themselves in the behavior of the injured and cannot be explained.
A team from Illinois Institute of Technology, the RDECOM Research Laboratory, the Army's corporate research laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory recently released a study that takes a first step to identify the changes that occur in otherwise normal looking brain neurons, with the specific impact forces experienced during head trauma.
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Bangor University via Medical Xpress
Heavier drinkers are much more likely to be involved in violence if they have suffered high levels of adverse childhood experiences, according to a new study.
The link between ACEs, alcohol and violence is especially pronounced in young men (18-29 years), with 62 percent of those with high levels of ACEs who are heavier drinkers having hit someone in the previous 12 months. This compares to 13.5 percent in heavier drinkers with no ACEs.
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East Oregonian
Visits to the Guardian Care Center usually take less than an hour. Often, that’s all the time forensic interviewers and nurse examiners need to find out key information in an abuse case — the discovery of a perpetrator’s DNA or a whispered disclosure by a child.
The Pendleton nonprofit has been an instrumental part of helping prosecute child abuse cases in Umatilla County, Oregon.
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U.S. News & World Report
Our culture has a lot of taboos around sex and the body, and a big one revolves around older adults having sex. Many people just assume that when you hit a certain age, sex becomes a thing of the past. But as many an older American can attest, that's simply not true. Many older adults remain sexually active and have a great time being so. However, for some, it could lead to health problems.
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