Gun Deaths Similar in Cities and Towns - U.S. Study
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Small-town residents are as likely  to die of gunshot wounds as people in big U.S. cities, but the  rural residents are killing themselves while urban dwellers are  being murdered, researchers reported on Monday.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- Unexploded ammunition, weapons and other military ordnance cause more injuries and deaths in Afghanistan than land mines, especially among children, says a study in the Jan. 8 issue of the British Medical Journal.
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Increases in air pollution caused by  cars, power plants and industry can be directly linked to  higher death rates in U.S. cities, a study said on Tuesday.
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When Connecticut's largest city was mired in the economic slump of the early 1990s, the homicide toll climbed to record levels and drug dealers and gang leaders ruled, charging tolls to cross their turf. Then, when economic relief came to Bridgeport in the late 1990s, violent crime fell, as it did in other big cities around the country.
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The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
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LIVING in suburbia takes a greater toll on your health than the so-called pressures of the big city, according to new research from the United States.
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The murder rate jumped by more than 10 percent among dozens of large U.S. cities since 2004, a study shows in the latest sign of the end of a national lull in violent crime. Robberies also spiked during the two-year period, as did felony assaults and attacks with guns, according to the report to be released Friday by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement think tank.
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Big-city murders rose sharply in 2006 as violent crime increased nationally for the second straight year, the FBI reported Monday. Homicides committed in small towns and mid-size cities took a dramatic downswing &#151; resulting in an overall 0.3 percent increase in the murder rate across the country, the new preliminary data show.
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About 16 students are murdered at U.S. schools each year, says a new government report that shows the number and rate of slayings has held steady and is lower than in the previous decade.
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Unintentional fatal drug overdoses in the United States nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004, overtaking falls to become the nation's second-leading cause of accidental death, behind automobile crashes, the government reported
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A black man living in a high-crime American city can expect to live 21 fewer years than a woman of Asian descent in the United States. The man's life expectancy, in fact, is closer to that of people living in West Africa than it is to the average white American.
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For residents of these 10 towns, life can be a death sentence.
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A report released yesterday said that people who live in such sprawling metropolitan areas as the Triad are more likely to report chronic health problems - high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches and breathing difficulties - than residents of more
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Boston police questioned a 7-year-old boy on Tuesday who shot and killed his 8-year-old cousin with an illegal gun, the latest example of the toll of gun violence in U.S. cities.
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A woman in New York City is more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than by a stranger, especially if she is young and foreign-born, a new study has found.
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Murders of children in U.S. military  families in North Carolina were more than double the state  average over a 15-year period, according to a study released on  Thursday.
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Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by an average of 30 years, a U.S. government study suggested on Thursday.