Leading medical and public health professional organizations across the United States are coming together to form the Healthcare Coalition for Firearm Injury Prevention to push for a comprehensive public health approach to ...
Mar 6, 2023
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A timely research report evaluating firearm injury survivors has found that despite medical advancements that improve survival from firearm injuries, many survivors experience long-term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ...
May 22, 2023
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Gun violence resulted in initial hospitalization costs of more than $6.6 billion nationwide from 2006 through 2014—an average of $734.6 million per year, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine.
Mar 21, 2017
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A University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher examining the circumstances behind pediatric firearm assaults found that most child shooting victims were shot outdoors for unknown reasons and were likely not intentionally ...
May 2, 2023
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Female victims of gun violence in the US are less likely to die than their male counterparts, despite having similar injury severity, finds a seven-year analysis of a US national injury database, published in the open access ...
Dec 12, 2023
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Firearm injuries kill more American children and teens than anything else, except automobile crashes. But research on how those injuries happen, who's most likely to suffer or die from one, or what steps would prevent them, ...
Jun 10, 2019
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A study of accidental firearm injuries in children found that the shootings most often occurred in the homes of the patient, friends, or family members, and that in most instances, one child unintentionally shot another or ...
Oct 7, 2022
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One in four adults in California lives in a household with a gun, including around 1 in 7 (14%) who personally own a firearm, suggest the results of a survey published in the journal Injury Prevention.
Dec 5, 2019
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There was a surge in pediatric firearm injuries presenting to U.S. children's hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Dec. 19 in JAMA Pediatrics.
Dec 22, 2022
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Gentrification can have a ripple effect on communities. While it can improve certain conditions in typically low-income areas, rising housing costs can displace residents, causing social disruption and other downstream effects.
Sep 20, 2023
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