Dec
28
Conditions that Mimic Sex Abuse Findings
December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Welcome back. Hope your holiday was a good one (and your up-coming week a short one). Over at Medscape they have a piece on conditions that mimic child sexual abuse findings. It’s a reprint of Horner’s article originally published this fall in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
Dec
18
Weekly Wrap-Up @ the Sustainability Blog + a Few Odds & Ends
December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
[Don't forget, you have until Wednesday, December 23rd at noon ET to be eligible for a copy of the Child Abuse Quick Reference, 2nd Edition. Just answer the question here to enter your name into the random drawing.]
This week, over at the sustainability site, some good stuff for your perusal:
*The Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s calendar [...]
Dec
14
The Choking Game
December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ABC News is running an article on their site about the choking game, which is a popular search term on this site. The article doesn’t break any new ground, but it does a decent job of providing an overview to the lay public. What I liked about the article, though, was the mention of an [...]
Dec
11
Weekly Wrap-Up @ the Sustainability Blog
December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
I wanted to point you toward a couple interesting items over at the sustainability site this week:
*A step-by-step guide to creating a social media strategy, a topic many of you have asked me about.
*A fascinating article on negotiating, definitely worth the read.
I’ve also posted another document on the Canada page that non-Canadian readers may also [...]
Dec
7
Articles of Note: December Edition
December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Time once again for a run down of some of the new and noteworthy articles in the current literature. All of these are from the November/December/January issues. As always, please keep in mind this in no way a comprehensive list; simply items that have caught my attention from a selection of peer-reviewed journals. Links lead [...]
Dec
4
Weekly Wrap-Up @ the Sustainability Blog
December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Heading home from a long, but satisfying week in Miami working with prosecutors at our sexual assault institute. But before I get on a plane, I just want to mention a couple things over at the sustainability site:
*A plethora of business management and leadership audio and video podcasts from Harvard Business Publishing (a favorite read [...]
Dec
1
Violence & Exploitation Against Women & Girls
December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I love when I run into interesting information from previously unexplored sources. The New York Academy of Sciences has archived materials from a conference put on in November 2005, Violence and Exploitation of Women and Girls. This is a particularly interesting one because the site provides media, as well as related resources and a report [...]
Nov
18
Organ Trafficking & Transplant Tourism
November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A subset of human trafficking, organ trafficking and transplant tourism are significant concerns around the globe. And while they’re not discussed to the same extent as sexual exploitation and forced child labor, quite a bit’s available on the subject. It initially caught my eye when I noticed Harvard’s Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking had an [...]
Nov
11
Recent Medscape Offerings
November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Medscape has a couple new offerings of interest. The 1st is a CME article on the connection between psychiatric disorders, sexual trauma and urinary tract symptoms. Physicians can receive 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 credit for reading the article and completing the posttest.
Nov
4
Articles of Note: November Edition
November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Time once again for a run down of some of the new and noteworthy articles in the current literature. All of these are from the October/November issues. As always, please keep in mind this in no way a comprehensive list; simply items that have caught my attention from a selection of peer-reviewed journals. Links lead [...]
