gun deaths

America faces a large and growing public health problem: suicide by men.  More than 38,000 men died by suicide in 2021, the highest number and rate of deaths in 20 years. Men die of suicide at four times the rate of women.…

TOPSHOT - A person adjusts flowers ahead of the opening of the Gun Violence Memorial on the National ... Mall in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. - Each vase of flowers in the memorial, set up by the Gabby Giffords Foundation, represents…

Topline Around one in five Americans report having a family member who was killed with a gun, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation published on Tuesday, underscoring the far-reaching nature of the country’s gun violence…

The country saw the largest increases in the mortality rate in decades among young kids and teenagers in 2020 and 2021, according to a research article released Monday.  Two researchers from the Virginia Commonwealth University School…

U.S. life expectancy is at least four years less than other wealthy, industrialized nations.getty The biggest health story from 2022 isn’t Covid-19. It isn’t RSV or influenza, either. It isn’t cancer, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease.…