The article discusses gun violence as a health care issue in the U.S. Comments from Mike McCally, executive director of physicians for social responsibility in Washington, D.C., are included. According to Miguel A. Faria Jr., a retired neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery, well-...
"Gun violence is a safety issue," Madanat said. "It's about preventing deaths, and that concept of prevention is the purview of public health." By delving deep into the statistics ofgun violence, she said, researchers hope to uncover patterns and generate policy suggestions, such as mandatory...
TheU.S. surgeon generalon Tuesday declaredgun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country.The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation's top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another summer weekend ...
Meanwhile in Minnesota – Hennepin Health, Allina, HealthPartners, CentraCare and Fairview health care systems are addressing gun violence, now calling it a "public health crisis." It’s not unheard of for the state’s largest healthcare systems to band together behind a single issue or threat...
"As long as I have life in my body, his memory will live on," Nolen said. Also hoping the declaration will have an impact is Street Pastor Donovan Price, who is often the first on crime scenes. He is well aware of how severe the gun violence crisis is. ...
"We need to treat gun violence as a public health issue, " Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed in a 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, explained in a 2021 interview [source: Allen]. But gun rights advocates say such laws would violate Ame...
there is a lack of gun violence studies. Funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study gun violence was drained in 1996 by what is known as the Dickey Amendment. And the National Institute of Health is quietly taking steps to shut down their gun violence research ...
Record US gun violence unmasks gun control legislation as‘bipartisan fraud’US turns into a "war zone" of gun violence. Cartoon: Vitaly Podvitski The US is now stuck in a "doom loop," when the sheer number of guns owned by Americans, and the violence and death they cause, is prompting...
WASHINGTON —TheU.S. surgeon generalon Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grapp...
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has declared gun violence a public health crisis, issuing an advisory outlining several steps for Congress and local communities to take. "When gun violence is the leading cause of death among kids and teens, that should alarm all of us," said Murthy....