New data released Monday by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety finds that deadly unintentional shootings by children rose 31% between March and December of 2020 from the same period the ...

The rate of unintentional drug overdose deaths has increased drastically in the past 2 decades and can now be considered an epidemic. Recently, Medscape moderated a discussion between Leonard J.

Americans are afraid of a lot of things: public speaking, heights, snakes, clowns and flying, just to name a few. Only some of these things can kill you, and none of them are likely to. When it comes ...

An ambulance with lights flashing drives down a road. Unintentional deaths are on the rise across the U.S., and in some states, people are more likely to die unintentionally than in others. With June ...

Katherine Hempstead ([email protected]) is a senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in Princeton, New Jersey. Julie Phillips is a professor of sociology at Rutgers, the State ...