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Gun laws in the United States and child and adolescent deaths

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“Did states enacting permissive firearm laws after 2010—when McDonald v Chicago was decided by the US Supreme Court—subsequently experience higher rates of pediatric firearm mortality?” Do State gun laws in the US have a connection to the deaths of children and adolescents? Featured article: *Faust, J. S., Chen, J., Bhat, S., Otugo, O., Yaver, M., Renton, B., Chen, A. J., Lin, Z., & Krumholz, H….

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What is death?

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“Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death certificates mark the moment we exit it. This practice reflects traditional notions about life and death as binaries. We are here until, suddenly, like a light switched off, we are gone.  But while this idea of death is pervasive, evidence is building that it is an outdated social construct, not really grounded in…

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