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By The Numbers: Guns In America After Newtown

By The Numbers: Guns In America After Newtown Salon- Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 people, including 20 children, over 33,000 people have been killed by guns (including over 2,600 children and teens), 26 more school shootings have taken place, and Congress has passed a total of zero federal gun violence prevention laws. Take a look at some of…

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Gunning For Danger: The Scary Reality Of Georgia's New Push To Repeal Nearly All State Gun Laws

Gunning For Danger: The Scary Reality Of Georgia’s New Push To Repeal Nearly All State Gun Laws

Mother Jones — Soon gun owners in the state of Georgia may be allowed to pack heat almost anywhere—including K-12 schools, bars, churches, government buildings, and airports. The “Safe Carry Protection Act” (HB 875) would also expand Georgia’s Stand Your Ground statute, the controversial law made famous by the Trayvon Martin killing, which allows armed citizens to defend themselves with deadly…

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Violence Against Women: A multi-level Analysis, Part 2: Defining a Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention

Part II: Defining a Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention “There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures, and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.”- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the history of violence prevention efforts in the U.S., including major social movements and…

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As U.S. Confirms First Zika-Related Death, Congressional Republicans Still Won't Approve Emergency Funding

As U.S. Confirms First Zika-Related Death, Congressional Republicans Still Won’t Approve Emergency Funding

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first Zika-virus-related death in the United States, raising new concerns about the severity of the mosquito-borne disease and prompting renewed calls for Congress to approve the Obama administration’s two-month-old request for emergency funding to fight the ongoing outbreak. According to a report released Thursday by the CDC,…

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5 Things You Should Know About Vaccines

5 Things You Should Know About #Vaccines. #WorldImmunizationWeek #PublicHealth #Facts

The development of vaccines is classified as one of the top ten public health accomplishments of the 20th century, and deservedly so — these cost-effective measures avert hundreds of millions of cases of disease and save millions of lives each year. As we celebrate World Immunization Week (April 24-30), here’s a look at some of the key facts about vaccines: 1. Vaccines have prevented more than…

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Hidden Danger: The Violence Lurking Just Beneath The Surface Of Mainstream Anti-Choice Politics

Anti-Abortion Violence: A Real-Life Horror Story In 1998, Iowa anti-abortion radical David Leach used his website as a platform to serialize Rescue Platoon, a mini-novel telling the story of a future, final war against abortion. The fictional account of the future of insurrectionary anti-abortion violence tells of a “righteous wrath” to come, replete with bombs, murder, and deranged vigilantism.…

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Bernie Sanders' Cozy Relationship With The NRA

Bernie Sanders’ Cozy Relationship With The NRA

Bernie Sanders prides himself on being a bold truth teller and bastion of unadulterated progressive ideals. On the campaign trail, the Vermont Senator holds himself above his competitors on both sides of the aisle by positioning himself as the only candidate who votes his convictions and can’t be corrupted by power or money. Yet when it comes to one of the most pressing issues on the progressive…

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A Mysterious Bacterial Infection Is Killing People In The Midwest

State and federal health officials are racing to find the source of an outbreak of Elizabethkingia, a common and generally harmless microbe that is suddenly wreaking such havoc in the midwest. A mysterious blood infection that has killed 17 people in Wisconsin over the past four months has now been linked to the death of a Michigan resident, raising the stakes for medical investigators who are…

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A Surgical Tech May Have Exposed Over 5,000 Patients To Hepatitis And HIV In Hospitals Across Four States

Hospitals in four states are warning thousands of patients that they may have been exposed to hepatitis and HIV by a former hospital worker who allegedly tampered with patients’ syringes to steal narcotic pain medication. The alert comes after Rocky Allen, 28, a former surgical technician, was indicted last month in Colorado on charges of tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a…

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STUDY: Domestic Violence During Pregnancy Doubles The Risk Of Preterm Birth

Women who experience any form of domestic violence during pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth to a premature baby or a baby with low birth weight, according to a new meta-analysis that adds to the evidence linking intimate partner violence to a range of adverse health consequences. Researchers from the University of Iowa analyzed the results of 50 previously-published studies that looked…

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New Evidence Undermines The Entire Premise Of Anti-Abortion Laws

As the Supreme Court deliberates over one of the most critical abortion rights cases of the last several decades, a newly-published study has revealed findings with profound implications for the abortion debate as a whole: In contrast to what abortion opponents claim, recent reductions in the U.S. abortion rate are attributable almost entirely to a historic drop in unintended pregnancies —and not…

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Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates for U.S. Teens Hit A Record Low

There’s some encouraging news in the Centers for Disease Control’s latest report about pregnancy rates among young women in the U.S. According to the agency, teen pregnancies have been steadily declining over the past two decades — hitting a new historic low in 2009, the most recent year with data on the subject. That’s led to new lows for the rates of teen births and abortions, too. The teen…

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Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates for U.S. Teens Hit A Record Low

There’s some encouraging news in the Centers for Disease Control’s latest report about pregnancy rates among young women in the U.S. According to the agency, teen pregnancies have been steadily declining over the past two decades — hitting a new historic low in 2009, the most recent year with data on the subject. That’s led to new lows for the rates of teen births and abortions, too. The teen…

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Unintended Pregnancy Plunges To Lowest Rate In 30 Years, Thanks To IUDs

A new study finds that the unintended pregnancy rate in the United States declined by 18 percent between 2008 and 2011, falling to the lowest rate in more than three decades. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, attributes the dramatic decline in unintended pregnancies to the increasing use of long-acting reversible contraceptive methods, especially intrauterine devices…

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STUDY: Experiences Of Racism During Pregnancy Linked To Physiological Damage In Women And Infants

New research from the University of Colorado Denver shows that women who experience racial or ethnic discrimination while pregnant suffer significant health impacts that are passed on to their infants, adding to an expansive body of evidence documenting the very real consequences of toxic stress stemming from racism. “Many people think that discrimination only has psychological impacts,” said Dr.…

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Another, More Common Species Of Mosquito May Be Able To Spread Zika Virus

Scientists in Brazil have discovered evidence that the Zika virus may be able to be transmitted by the Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, a species that is 20 times more common than the Aedes aegypti mosquito that is currently known to transmit the virus. The Zika virus could potentially be transmitted by an even more common species of mosquitoes, Brazilian scientists announced this week, raising…

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STUDY: Climate Change-Fueled Food Crisis Could Kill Half A Million People By 2050

More than half a million people could die in the next few decades as a result of reduced global food production caused by climate change, according to new research published Wednesday in The Lancet. The study, from the UK-based Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford, is the first of its kind to assess the impact of climate change on diet composition and…

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