Black women have 80% higher risk of preterm birth between 32 and 33 weeks of pregnancy if a Black person who lives in their neighborhood is killed by police during the pregnancy, according to a study by researchers at UC ...
Mar 12, 2021
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As we face rising COVID infection rates, the possibility of additional quarantines rises. Although stay-at-home orders might protect individuals from the virus, home isn't safe for everyone. Studies show that domestic violence ...
Dec 4, 2020
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Up to one-third of adult women who sustain a non-displaced fracture to the ulna bone of the forearm may be victims of intimate partner violence, according to a study being presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological ...
Nov 30, 2020
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A new study, led by the doctors who regularly treat gunshot victims, examined the way the media covers shootings and found that news reports place a disproportionate emphasis on fatal and multiple shootings, while also focusing ...
Oct 19, 2020
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Young females in their late teens are more likely than other Australians to be victims of sexual assault, and young males of the same age group are most likely to be recorded as perpetrators, according to police-recorded ...
Aug 28, 2020
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Seventy percent of parents who have experienced child and adolescent-to-parent violence, saw an increase in violent episodes during lockdown, according to a report out today from researchers at the Universities of Oxford ...
Aug 19, 2020
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A UCLA-led research team has found an increase in the incidence of domestic violence reports in two cities, Los Angeles and Indianapolis, since stay-at-home restrictions were implemented in March in response to the COVID-19 ...
May 28, 2020
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People sheltering in place to avoid the threat of COVID-19 are finding themselves trapped with a more familiar source of danger—their own spouse or parent.
Apr 10, 2020
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As the COVID-19 outbreak intensifies, we're seeing mass isolation in virus epicentres, with about 500 million people in China "under varying degrees of quarantine", and all of Italy in lockdown.
Mar 13, 2020
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Christopher Lee was 15 years old when he was shot May 14, 2016, while on his bike outside his home. He was shot in the back, arm and chest, and was in the hospital for six days, where he had two surgeries in addition to staples ...
Nov 26, 2019
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