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After the UNLV shooting, President Joe Biden on Friday stepped up his demands for action against gun violence. USA Today covers college professors calling the issue a "national menace." Meanwhile, Wyoming Public Radio reports on how stigma prevents gun owners from seeking mental health help.

Gentrifying a neighborhood is somewhat controversial. After all, as more affluent people move into a cheaper neighborhood and begin the process of making the property more valuable, it pushes lower-in...

Researchers found firearm injury incidence rate was 62% higher in neighborhoods gentrified between 2014 and 2019

Two new studies out of Canada and Sweden suggest that patients operated on by female surgeons are less likely to face future complications or require follow-up care than those treated by male surgeons. The cohort study, published in JAMA Surgery, examined over one million records from two different medical registries of adult patients who underwent …

A new study published in JAMA Surgery finds that patients treated by female surgeons are less likely to experience adverse outcomes after surgery.

Differences in technique, speed and risk-taking suggested as reasons for surgery by men leading to more problems

Kidneys from pigs provided “life-­sustaining kidney function” after being transplanted into a brain-dead patient , researchers have found.

Medical breakthrough marks longest pig kidney has functioned in a human, setting stage for operations in living patients

Study finds no link between hospital competition and surgical outcomes. Researchers analyze Medicare Provider Analysis and Review files and American Hospital As

Sweden: The closure of mesenteric defects during laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) surgery reduces the long-term risk of small bowel obstruction (SBO), suggesting that routine use of this...