ALLMedicine™ Child Abuse Center

Jan 21st, 2022 - The role of childhood abuse and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels in suicidal behaviour is controversial. We aimed to investigate the individual and interactive effects of the childhood abuse and serum BDNF on suicidal behaviou...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Skull fractures in infants and young children can occur as a result of both accidental trauma and abuse. 1/3 of children with abuse-related head trauma and 1/5 of children with abuse-related fractures were overlooked during the initial evaluation....

Jan 19th, 2022 - The increase in the use of opioids in Ohio is believed to have contributed to a crisis within county child welfare agencies throughout the state. Prior research has found a connection between opioid use and child abuse and neglect, but no previous...

Jan 17th, 2022 - Evaluations of suspected non-accidental trauma (NAT) often include consultation with genetic and metabolic teams to assess patients for rare genetic conditions that can mimic or exacerbate child abuse. Diagnoses that may be questioned during court...

Jan 14th, 2022 - The study provides considerations for generating a phenotype of child abuse and neglect in Emergency Departments (ED) using secondary data from electronic health records (EHR). Implications will be provided for racial bias reduction and the develo...

Jun 29th, 2018 - Article 25 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (adopted in Nice on 7 December 2000) recognizes and respects the rights of older people to lead a life of dignity and independence and to participate in social and cultural life...

May 6th, 2017 - The youngest children, particularly in the first year of life, are the most vulnerable to physical abuse. Skeletal survey is the universal screening examination in children 24 months of age and younger. Fractures occur in over half of abused child...

Jan 10th, 2022 - Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the most frequently diagnosed mental health condition among veterans (Tanielian & Jaycox, 2008), with estimated rates of the condition ranging from 5-20% (Hoge, Castro, et al., 2004; Hoge, Terhakopian, et al...

Nov 22nd, 2021 - Research documents the concerning rates and negative outcomes of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs include child abuse as well as indicators of household (e.g., exposure to intimate partner violence [IPV]) and neighborhood (e.g., communit...

Nov 3rd, 2021 - Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder[7] in which a person has certain thoughts repeatedly (called "obsessions") and/or feels the need to perform certain routines repeatedly (called "compulsions") to an extent tha...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - This 5-year study will evaluate the efficacy of an innovative educational intervention, iLook Out for Child Abuse (iLookOut) for increasing rates of accurate child abuse reporting. Grounded in an Experiential Learning conceptual model, iLookOut is...

Aug 17th, 2021 - BACKGROUND: International studies have shown prevalence rates of child abuse globally, with around 20 percent of all children being exposed to violent or abusive parenting (Stoltenborgh, Bakermans Kranenburg, Ijzendoorn, & Alink, 2013). A Swedish ...

Nov 17th, 2021 - The Safe Alliance in Austin, Texas, helps survivors of child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence. Before Texas' new abortion law took effect, the organization counseled a 12-year-old who had been repeatedly raped by her father. Piper Stege...

Nov 8th, 2021 - The emergency department (ED) can play a crucial role in curbing violence, thereby reducing deaths and serious injuries, Christopher Colwell, MD, of the Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and Trauma Center, Uni...

Oct 6th, 2021 - (Hackensack, N.J.) -- John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center is among limited U.S. sites, and the only hospital in New Jersey certified to offer Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel), a cell-bas...

Oct 4th, 2021 - Childhood adversity -- encompassing child abuse, neglect, and violence, among other hazards -- was associated with over 430,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2019, according to a systematic review. "For perspective, this figure is higher than the total nu...

Aug 26th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A 50-year-old father of a high school student in Florida was charged with child abuse on Wednesday after officials said he pushed another student ...