Firearm fatalities and drug poisonings increased dramatically among children in the United States from 2011 to 2021, according to findings from a study led by a mother and her teenage daughter.
“This article was prompted by many dinner table discussions between me and my daughter,” Rebekah Mannix, MD, MPH associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital with a research focus on traumatic brain injury, told Healio.
“We frequently talk about firearm injuries and wanted to