Health
Health practitioners are missing opportunities to identify domestic violence perpetrators—this is what needs to change
Identifying perpetrators of domestic and family violence is critical to ending violence against women.
Feb 2, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Women are more likely to identify as bisexual—can research into sexual arousal tell us why?
Women's sexuality is vastly understudied in science and is still considered a "taboo" subject. Often, the experiences of men have been taken as the norm in scientific research, yet there are important differences in the sexuality ...
Feb 2, 2023
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Medications
Βeta-blocker use associated with lower rates of violence
Reductions in violence are seen in individuals using Beta adrenergic-blocking agents (β-blockers) compared with periods that they are not taking the medication, finds a study published January 31 in the open-access journal ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Health
Nearly half of pregnant people experiencing intimate partner violence are not screened before or after pregnancy
Most policy, research and clinical efforts to reduce maternal mortality focus on clinical risk factors and the quality of hospital-based care for pregnant people, but a new study examines maternal safety outside the clinical ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Investigative reporter, who covered murder-suicides, explains how journalists are vulnerable to trauma
It never really dawned on me how vulnerable journalists were to trauma until I took a job as an investigative reporter. I spent most of 2021 and 2022 verifying, analyzing and writing stories about murder-suicides.
Jan 26, 2023
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Health
One in three US public health workers reports feeling threatened by the public while working during pandemic
A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine documents the record levels of non-physical violence directed at public health workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response and the impact of the public anger ...
Jan 24, 2023
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Health
Ask the Pediatrician: Just how dangerous is underage drinking?
With so many other issues affecting young people right now, teen alcohol use may not seem like that big of a deal. You might recall your own early experiences and figure that some drinking can be expected. But when we look ...
Jan 16, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
From emotional maltreatment to psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence
Emotional maltreatment, also known as psychological violence, is difficult to recognize and record both in research and in practice. That is why researchers at the Leipzig University Faculty of Medicine carried out a highly ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
What are 'red flag' laws and how can they prevent gun violence?
California's red flag law, which allows people to obtain gun violence restraining orders (GVROs), went into effect seven years ago.
Jan 11, 2023
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Medical research
Social vulnerabilities, not individual behavior, put opioid-using women at risk for rape, finds research
As rates of opioid use continue to rise among women in the United States, emerging research reveals a worrisome prevalence of rape among opioid-using women.
Jan 11, 2023
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