there were 33,636 Americans killed by gunsversus33, 782 fatal crashes. The most recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics released in 2013 shows the number of gun deaths by state - whether it was homicide, accidental discharge, or intentional self-harm. ...
was to examine patterns and causes of violent death across the United States in the twentieth century.METHODOLOGY:The authors of this report conducted a secondary analysis of annual statistical data, complied by the National Center for Health Statistics, over a forty year period. These data on ...
The absurd statement that“Guns Are the Leading Cause of Death for U.S. Children”comes from activists, journalists, and politicians cherry-picking information out of the CDC WONDER database produced by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
by 8.5%. US homicide rates in the year 1900 were an estimated 1 per 100,000 — at a time when anyone of any age could buy a gun. Statistics-gathering may have been less thorough at that time — and few people had the money or interest to buy guns. But American gun supply (...
Stun guns: these are instruments which cause an electric shock of considerable voltage (50,000–250,000 V).32 Lesions associated with their use, such as superficial burns when the electric shock passes through the skin, musculoskeletal lesions due to intense muscle contraction, head lesions from ...
12/21/2015 - Meet Robert Califf. He was recently appointed as Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco at the FDA, by the Obama administration. This is the same guy who worked at the Duke Institute for Clinical Research, where he co-chaired the executive committee for the clinica...
The number of intentional lethal self-poisoning acts may be underestimated because a sizeable proportion of those who commit them reach hospital alive, but then die from complications. These deaths are not reported as suicides in mortality statistics. The long-term impact of chronic liver damage fro...
We were able to confirm the strong positive association between caliber and fatality rate and summarize the overall effect of larger calibers by simulating the effect on outcomes if all the guns had been small caliber. The result is a 39.5% reduction in the probability of death, implying an ...
3 In 2015, Kaiser Permanente Washington added the question, “Do you have access to guns? (yes/no),” to a standard mental health (MH) monitoring questionnaire to support suicide risk identification and safety planning.4 Our objective was to evaluate whether and how suicide decedents who ...
GunsFirearm injuries from crime include those caused by interpersonal violenceregardless of whether the injured party was the intended target or even a perpetrator. Such injuries can be fatal (homicides) or nonfatal (assaults). Incidents resulting in firearm injury may involve other crimes like ...