Could a Holistic Approach to Gun Violence Reporting Help Victims?
In the fall of 2022, when I first started working at The Trace, I had the opportunity to attend the Association of Health Care Journalists’ summit on reporting on violence as a public health issue....
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Brady United, a national gun violence prevention group, announced today the launch of its first national advisory council, whose goal is to address gun violence through a public health lens by placing...
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Gun Violence Prevention Services Can’t Reach Everyone. Telehealth Could Help.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chuka Emezue watched as a few men in the domestic violence intervention program he directed struggled to stay awake or were distracted in remote video calls....
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Arkansas’s Many Shooting Victims Share a Single Trauma Center. This...
When Nakita Lovelady matriculated to the graduate program at the University of Arkansas, her evenings were spent studying by the dim light in her Little Rock apartment, where she scribbled down notes,...
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In 2019, Congress Finally Funded Gun Violence Research. Here’s How It’s...
In the mid-2010s, as a series of mass shootings set new records for lethality and turned the public’s attention toward America’s gun violence epidemic, the same question was raised again and again:...
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When Pregnancy Makes You a Target
Adrienne Rodriguez held her head high as she walked to the front of the courtroom. On her right, her friends and relatives filled the three wooden pews in the back of the room. To her left, the rows...
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Can a Health Care Approach Abate the Maternal Homicide Crisis?
Nearly 15 years ago, as 20-year-old Emily Likins-Ehlers was navigating their entry into adulthood, they became pregnant by an abusive partner. It thrust Likins-Ehlers, whose pronouns are they/them,...
View Article‘A Direct Attack on Science:’ Trump’s Return Is Rattling Gun Violence...
In November 2024, as he awaited the fallout from the presidential election results, Dr. Garen Wintemute gathered a group of his colleagues at UC Davis to plan how they would download the thousands of...
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What If Medical Experts Tracked the Lethality of Bullets Like Smallpox,...
The 5.56 NATO bullet has been used in some of the country’s most horrific public mass shootings — including the ones so deadly that we refer to them by shorthand. Sandy Hook. Parkland. Aurora. Uvalde....
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Teens Are More Likely to Arm Themselves in Cluttered, Violence-Plagued...
Residents’ perception of disorder in their neighborhoods — litter, abandoned buildings, public drug use, robust police presence — may be leading more young people to carry a gun, according to a new...
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