Page 13 - Rape Kits News Today

It took Florida three years to clear a backlog of unanalyzed sex assault evidence collection kits. Now survivors are hoping the governor signs a bill into law...

May 21, 2021 After Madison Campbell was sexually assaulted, she had an overwhelming feeling of not wanting to be touched by anyone, she remembers. She didn’t want to tell her friends what happened, she didn’t want to talk to the police, she didn’t want to leave her dorm room ever again. In the hours that followed the crime, which occurred while she attended a study abroad program at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, she walked to a nearby pharmacy to buy black dye for her blond hair, a...

Effort To Increase Rape Kit Testing Led To More Than 40 Arrests in NC Cold Cases by Associated Press 6:43pm May 18, 2021 A sexual assault evidence kit is logged in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in Houston. (AP File Photo/Pat Sullivan) More than half of the untested sexual assault kits recently accounted for in law enforcement evidence lockers across North Carolina have now been tested or are awaiting testing at private labs, Attorney General Josh Ste...

Scarcity breeds falsification and counterfeiting. India is known as the pharmacy of the world, but the country is battling the challenge of counterfeit drugs for long including fake Covid-19 vaccines and fake Remdesivir.

Nurses in Kamareddy Govt Hospital dance with COVID-19 patients By Mohammed Hussain Ahmed|   Published: 14th May 2021 2:16 pm IST Hyderabad: With the surge in COVID-19 cases in Telangana state, the number of patients is increasing in government hospitals and COVID Care Centers. Along with the treatment, the doctors and nurses are doing everything to keep the spirits of the patients high On the eve of “International Nurses Day”, nurses wearing PPE kits at Kamareddy Government Hospital danced...

Viral photo: Doctor shows how it’s like wearing PPE kit for entire day By Falguni Lalwani|   Published: 1st May 2021 4:12 pm IST (Twitter) Ahmedabad: Amid the huge number of COVID-19 cases yet again burdening the hospitals, with doctors working over-times and longer hours in wards wearing the personal protection (PPE) kits. A photo that is now viral on the internet shows a doctor entirely drenched in sweat from tip to toe, as a result of working long hours in the PPE kit. The picture, sha...

URL copied US determined to help people of India: NSA Sullivan The United States is determined to help the people of India in this moment of crisis, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said here as the first shipment of key life-saving medical supplies for the country took off from California. "The United States is determined to help the people of India. We will continue to stand together in our shared battle against COVID-19," Sullivan said in a tweet on Wednesday soon after t...

Bangladesh said it stands in solidarity with its close neighbor India and offered to send emergency medicines and medical equipment supplies | NewsBytes

Doctor shows what being in PPE suit for 15 hours looks like. See viral pic A picture of a doctor is going viral on social media, in which he is seen drenched in sweat as a result of wearing a PPE kit for 15 hours. advertisement Photos shared by Dr Sohil on Twitter With over three lakh Covid-19 cases each day and a death toll that has already crossed the two lakh mark a day ago, the second wave of the pandemic has taken over India like a storm. As the health crisis surges at a rapid pace, medica...

Updated: 10:37 PM EDT Apr 26, 2021 A bill that would create a statewide tracking system for sexual assault kits, commonly known as rape kits, will now become a law.Gails Law passed in Florida’s senate Monday afternoon.The law is named after Gail Gardner of Orange County who was attacked and raped in her home in 1988. In 2015, WESH 2 Investigates revealed there were more than a thousand untested kits in Central Florida police evidence lockers.Florida cleared that backlog of untested ...