Progressive Charlestown: Gun Deaths Among US Children Rose 87% in Last Decade progressive-charlestown.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from progressive-charlestown.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Julvonnia McDowell was making dinner one evening when she got a call saying that her 14-year-old son, JaJuan — a gentle boy who loved animals, who was so generous that he gave a pair of shoes to a classmate who was being teased — had been shot. He was visiting a relative’s home when another teenager pulled a gun out from a drawer, where the firearm had been stashed under a T-shirt. “JaJuan told him to put it away, but the other teenager said that it wasn’t loaded, not realizing it was loaded,” s
THURSDAY, Oct. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) Pediatric case fatality rates have increased over the past decade, driven by a reduction in nonfatal injuries and increasing fatal injuries, according to a research brief published online Oct. 5 in Pediatrics. Cordelia Mannix, from Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and colleagues compared trends in fatal and nonfatal
The finding underscores additional data showing that firearm injuries are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 20, excluding deaths of infants born prematurely or with congenital abnormalities.
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