http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. News stories about mass shootings involving a shooter with mental illness heighten readers' negative attitudes toward persons with serious mental illness, according to a new report by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers also examined how such news stories impact support for policies to reduce gun violence. Compared to study respondents who did not read a story about a mass shooting, reading a news article describing a mass shooting raised readers' support for both gun restrictions for persons with serious mental illness, and for a ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines. The results, are published in the April issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry and have important implications for advocates and policy makers who promote gun safety policy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-media-coverage-mass-contributes-negative.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:59:09 EST news283013943 A new commentary in the Annals of Internal Medicine from researchers with The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and University of California, Davis, calls for more physician engagement in the current gun policy dialogue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-gun-violence-experts-physician-involvement.html Health Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:10:01 EST news279822250 On July 20, a gunman in Aurora, Colorado, used an assault rifle to murder 12 people and wound 58 others. Although this was one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, all mass shootings account for a small percentage of gun violence that occurs in the U.S. every day. In the past 100 days since the Aurora shooting, an estimated 3,035 Americans have died as a result of gun violence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-restricting-high-risk-individuals-guns.html Other Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:31:15 EST news270372663