by Jordana Choucair | May 26, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that firearms were the leading cause of death for kids one and older for the first time in 2020. Nearly two-thirds of the 4,368 U.S. children up to age 19 who were killed by guns in...
by Jordana Choucair | May 25, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
A shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas killed 19 students and two adults, marking the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.The gunman was killed by law...
by Jordana Choucair | May 24, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New data from the CDC show that there were 3.66 million births in the U.S. in 2021, up 1 percent from 2020 and the first increase in seven years. The rebound spanned age groups, with birthrates rising for every cohort of women age 25 and older. The preterm birth rate...
by Jordana Choucair | May 19, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
An internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed deep concerns about the agency’s culture and responsiveness to public health threats. Individuals inside the CDC or from adjacent government agencies cited several frustrations, including a...
by Jordana Choucair | May 19, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The House passed a bill to help prevent domestic terrorism and combat the threat of violent extremism. The 222-203 vote comes in the wake of a racially motivated mass shooting over the weekend at a supermarket in a predominately Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New...
by Jordana Choucair | May 11, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the rate at which Americans were killed in gun homicides soared by nearly 35 percent in 2020 to the highest level in more than 25 years. Amid the pandemic and recession that followed,...
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