The News Review:
- Dueling mental health experts concludes Rockefeller trial
- EMTs face discipline for not performing CPR
- Child’s toxic stress affects later health
Dueling mental health experts concludes Rockefeller trial
Boston Globe
Chu is expected to be the last witness to testify in the case which will ultimately come down to dueling testimony from mental health experts. Rockefeller has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges stemming from the alleged kidnapping of his 7-year-old daughter during a bitter custody dispute last summer. The defense has built its case on the testimony of two mental health experts who testified on Wednesday that Rockefeller recently realized that he is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter and was born in Germany. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow of Newburyport and forensic psychologist Catherine T.
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EMTs face discipline for not performing CPR
Boston Globe
“A family member began CPR and a New Bedford police officer had taken over the task before paramedics arrived. The infant was handed over to Nunes and Brody and neither continued the CPR the health department said. Brody told city officials and the health department that he thought the child was deceased and transported the infant to the hospital so the parents would not have the baby in their home while the death was investigated. But the health department said neither paramedic performed the required medical analysis on the child. The paramedics needed to check for rigor mortis body temperature lung sounds and reaction to light the report stated. “There is no evidence that this patient met the criteria for [paramedics] to withhold or cease CPR efforts” the health department concluded.
Child’s toxic stress affects later health
United Press International
researchers suggest. “Improving the developmental trajectory of a child by helping the parents and improving the home environment is probably the single most important thing we can do for the health of that child” study co-author Bruce McEwen of The Rockefeller University in New York said in a statement. “Adverse childhood experience is one of the largest contributors to such chronic health problems as diabetes and obesity psychiatric disorders drug abuse — almost every major public health challenge we face. In the report McEwen and co-authors distinguish between “positive” and “tolerable” stress which — with the support of adults — help the body and brain learn to cope with brief situations of adversity and “toxic” stress which can disrupt brain architecture as well as other body systems and increase the risk for stress-related disease and cognitive impairment well into adulthood. Some risk factors for toxic stress include extreme poverty recurrent abuse chronic neglect severe maternal depression and family violence. The findings are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
