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The law restricts a major government public health agency's research into gun violence, which kills or injures more people than many other infectious diseases.
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Homicides, mainly gun deaths, are the biggest contributor to premature death among black Americans. Yet despite this harsh statistic, there’s very little…
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In 2011, Aaron Murray bought his first gun at a sporting goods store — a .40-caliber Beretta pistol. He and his wife were fixing up a foreclosed home in a…
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If you’re like millions of other Americans, when a big event happens –a shooting, a disease outbreak, a contentious election –you scour the internet to…
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The U.S. "has the highest rate of gun-related deaths among industrialized countries, with more than 30,000 fatalities annually," the study says. Yet funding for gun violence research is limited.
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Gun shop owners and public health workers in Colorado are finding common ground amid rancor over guns and politics. They are collaborating to reduce suicides involving firearms.
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A first-aid class in Philadelphia is designed to help people learn how to keep shooting victims alive until the paramedics arrive. It teaches skills such as applying tourniquets to stop bleeding.
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As the ancient Chinese proverb says, from crisis comes opportunity. That is certainly true for Garen Wintemute, a leading gun-violence researcher and…
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On a recent hot day in Indianapolis, Keith Smitherman made a stop at an apartment complex in one of that city's most violent neighborhoods, near 38th…
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The American Medical Association says it will continue to lobby Congress to overturn the 20-year prohibition of gun violence research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.