INTRODUCTION There are increasing opportunities for nurses to become sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs). In rural areas far from established SANE programs, nurses considering becoming SANEs have few opportunities to talk with or observe experienced SANEs to explore the role and determine if they are well suited to forensic and victim service work. The purpose of this exploratory, descriptiv...

Sanjay Sane is an Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India. He has a bachelor’s degree in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College in University of Delhi, and a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Poona in Pune, India. His doctoral work at University of California, Berkeley i...

Most sexual assaults are never reported to law enforcement, and even among reported cases, most will never be successfully prosecuted. This reality has been a long-standing source of frustration for survivors, victim advocates, as well as members of the criminal justice system. To address this problem, communities throughout the United States have implemented multidisciplinary response interven...

This study is first to analyze the inflammatory cytokines, produced by the bronchial epithelium after exposure to areca nut extract (ANE), which contribute to airway remodeling by increasing human bronchial smooth muscle cells (BSMC) migration and proliferation. We treated human bronchial epithelial cell lines BEAS-2B and HBE135-E6E7 (HBE) with ANE, saliva-reacted ANE (sANE), and the areca alka...

The past is not the just past, but an integral part of our present. And our present must not be only our present misfortune. We can develop new themes in our lives that defy our hardships and create context for what is to come. These themes may return years later with new twists of triumph or tragedy. They are our themes, and belong to us. Meanwhile, we can celebrate our present and future by c...

Background There are numerous subjective rating scales available to evaluate outcomes of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Single Assessment Numerical Evaluation (SANE) score was developed to reduce the burden of patients or clinicians to evaluate patients' status by asking patients to simply rate the current status of their injured body part on a scale of 0-100. The purpose of this study is to in...