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Sen. Tim Kaine joined Wakefield High School students this morning (March 16) to discuss gun violence and school safety. Students offered their own perspectives

Americans are struggling to understand why mass shootings like those in Texas happen — and what can be done to prevent them. Conservatives like Sen. Mike Lee blame crumbling society, fatherlessness. Liberals are more apt to blame readily available guns. Read more about what studies show and how policy could help.

After a two-decade freeze on federal funding, the CDC and NIH are backing dozens of studies examining gun use and access. But researchers say that the field has a lot of catching up to do.

WASHINGTON -- Arkansas congressional lawmakers are showing no signs of embracing new gun restrictions as House Democrats look to pass changes this week in the aftermath of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Experts fear the country is veering dangerously into a widespread acceptance of mass death as just a regular part of life - not only by moving on with little more than faint...

Hospitals and healthcare researchers are racing to understand and enact more effective programs and measures in hopes of stopping the bloodshed.

As COVID-19 slowly retreats, another kind of public health pandemic is re-emerging, health care experts say. The murders of 19 children in Uvalde, Texas, last week and 10 elderly patrons of Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., two weeks ago once again has shone a grim spotlight on what medical…

In California, the number of gun-related deaths has fallen by nearly 30% percent. It turns out that the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun research center.

Patterns inconsistencies across communities and even states in societies. so, public health solutions look at all levels. so we study community violence intervention, clinical interventions with people who might be a risk for suicide. so a broad range of potential solutions. including stronger public policy. not exclusively to guns, but also relevant to alcohol, drugs, housing and other issues. >> the american medical association has called for the uncontrolled ownership and use of firearms, quo...

After the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, experts are stressing that most gun violence is not committed by mentally ill people. In fact, mentally ill people...