AMA to wage war on U.S.’s newest ‘public health crisis’: Gun violence


http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/ama-to-wage-war-on-uss-newest-public-health-crisis-gun-violence/420910/

“Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the CDC from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence and determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries,” Stack said. “An epidemiological analysis of gun violence is vital so physicians and other health providers, law enforcement, and society at large may be able to prevent injury, death and other harms to society resulting from firearms.”

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160614/NEWS/160619952/breaking-ama-asks-for-end-to-ban-on-gun-research-funding

 

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