ALLMedicine™ Child Abuse Center

Sep 15th, 2021 - The ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has heightened several risk factors  for child abuse and neglect (CAN). We study whether COVID-19 and the public health response to it affected CAN-related pediatric emergency department (ED) visits in the s...

Sep 12th, 2021 - Childhood maltreatment, occurring in up to 20-30% of the population, remains far too common, and incorporates a range of active and passive factors, from abuse, to neglect, to the impacts of broader structural and systemic adversity. Despite the e...

Sep 11th, 2021 - Long-term exposure to childhood abuse and occurrence of mental illness are positively correlated. Using long-term tracking data in Korea, we identified the characteristics of children and adolescents who experienced abuse and impact thereof on the...

Sep 10th, 2021 - The risk for adverse consequences and disease due to the trauma of child abuse or neglect is easily assessed using the self-administered modified ACEs questionnaire. Exposure to child maltreatment is endemic and common. At least one out of every t...

Sep 7th, 2021 - Chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) is a disease of the elderly population. Incidence in paediatric population is relatively uncommon. Child abuse, birth trauma, coagulopathy and shunt surgeries represent major causes. Major impact of the disease on ...

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...

Jun 11th, 2021 - The epidemic of child abuse in the U.S. (>670,000 confirmed annually) causes massive harm to children and the adults they become. Surprisingly, <1% of these substantiated cases of child abuse are identified and reported by early childhood professi...

Mar 16th, 2021 - This study will examine the efficacy of Enhanced First Connections, which is a short-term perinatal home visiting program that includes infant and early childhood mental health consultation. Mothers with a history of adversity or trauma will be th...

Jun 7th, 2018 - Child maltreatment has well-established, wide-ranging, and long-term negative effects on children. Most children who have experienced maltreatment and are receiving services through the Child Welfare System (CWS) remain in their homes with their c...

May 21st, 2021 - A parenting assessment can add value to a clinic visit by facilitating conversations about discipline and potentially mitigating adverse childhood experiences, based on survey data from 167 health care providers. "Some of the most modifiable adver...

Apr 9th, 2021 - Clinicians in pediatrics have noticed a troubling pattern emerge during the pandemic, something that is darkly referred to as "the COVID 19," or the 19 or more pounds that many of our patients have gained in the past year. This phenomenon has unde...

Feb 5th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - While U.S. emergency department visits dropped overall during the two weeks in March 2020 following declaration of a national emergency, certain issues involving mental health, violence and overdoses saw less of a decline and qu...

Jan 8th, 2021 - (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States has toughened its ban on the "abhorrent practice" of female genital mutilation in a move campaigners hope will bolster efforts to end an ancient rite forced on millions of girls worldwide. The Unite...

Jan 6th, 2021 -   Black and Latinx children are more likely to be evaluated for child abuse and referred to child protective services than their White peers, according to research discussed by Tiffani J. Johnson, MD, an assistant professor of emergency medicine a...