If a person is shot, they need prompt emergency medical attention. After getting to safety and contacting emergency services, you can slow the bleeding by applying pressure until help arrives. Gunshot ...

A single urban trauma center that treated nearly 1,000 gunshot victims over a more-than 2-year period spent an average of nearly $675,000 a month on their care, a new report finds. Over a 27-month ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Mitra Bolton was standing beside her car and shuffling through her purse after leaving a convenience store on Houston's south side. From the corner of her eye, she saw a truck ...

In 2021, there were 249 incidents where a firearm was discharged on K-12 campuses – nine active shooter incidents and 240 non-active shooter incidents, according to research by the Center for Homeland ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Twelve people died this week after a gunman opened fire in a bar in ...

A study using Maryland data finds that gunshot victims are approximately five times more likely to require blood transfusions, they require 10 times more blood units and are 14 times more likely to ...

Civilians with gunshot wounds to the head or other penetrating brain injuries have a 42% chance of surviving, according to a study of more than 400 patients at two major trauma centers. After the 2011 ...

On Monday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ doctors said that the congresswoman is “not out of the woods yet” but that her brain has not shown any more signs of swelling, and that doctors are “slightly more ...

As forensic evidence goes, gunshot residue can be full of holes. But a new technique could provide a more definitive link between suspect and gun. A tool that employs lasers may allow investigators to ...

Podcast host Megyn Kelly during a Friday interview pressed Republican Montana Senate candidate and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy about a gunshot wound he claims he received in open combat. Throughout ...

The loss of so much life in the Orlando shootings is exceptional, but the kind of bullet wounds and the extreme nature of the physical trauma that people suffered in this incident is not as uncommon ...

Police reported that three victims with gunshot wounds have been transported to a local hospital after a shooting at Westfield Valley Fair Mall in San Jose, California, appeared to take advantage of ...