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Different data compilers report divergent totals for U.S. firearm deaths in 2024: a CDC-based compilation and aggregators that include suicides put the total near 44,400 deaths (USAFacts), while incid...
Available sources consistently show that Black Americans experience much higher rates of gun homicide and gun-related victimization than non‑Hispanic white Americans—for example, analyses report Black...
Available reporting shows Ben Carson has been the target of multiple online scam and fake-advertisement campaigns that falsely attribute endorsements of medical products to him; AFP fact checks report...
Dr. Mehmet Oz has discussed tinnitus and some potential treatments on his programs and in syndicated columns, including mentioning transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), sound- and brain‑training ap...
The 2025–2026 influenza vaccine program recommends annual vaccination for everyone aged 6 months and older and includes H1N1, H3N2 and influenza B in the U.S. formulations; the FDA updated strain sele...
Multiple reporters, opinion writers and mental‑health professionals have publicly said they see signs of cognitive decline in President Donald Trump; several experts have used terms ranging from “wors...
Research is mixed but leans toward stricter gun regulations being associated with lower firearm deaths and some reductions in violent crime in many studies; authoritative reviews (RAND, Johns Hopkins)...
The U.S. experiences roughly 46,000–47,000 firearm deaths annually in recent years, which translates to about 13–14 gun deaths per 100,000 people on a national, per‑capita basis (13.7 per 100,000 in 2...
Available data sources show that police shootings have averaged roughly 900–1,200 fatalities per year since 2015, with non-governmental trackers (notably The Washington Post’s Fatal Force data summari...
Available reporting shows that the number of clinician‑provided abortions in the U.S. rose from 2020 to 2024 and that total abortions nationwide were estimated at 1.14 million in 2024 according to Soc...
The assertion that medical malpractice (medical errors) is the third-leading cause of death in the United States stems mainly from a Johns Hopkins analysis estimating ~250,000 deaths annually and plac...
Prostatitis can develop quickly or over months depending on the cause: acute bacterial prostatitis “starts quickly,” while chronic prostatitis is defined as lasting three months or more . Unprotected ...
The United States is formally a constitutional republic with regular competitive elections, but experts and institutions increasingly classify its democratic quality as weakened or “flawed,” and some ...
The sharpest available analyses show that Washington, D.C. had the highest age‑adjusted firearm homicide rate in recent comparative data (about 14.4 per 100,000), while Wyoming led the nation in firea...
Three common tallies appear in public reporting for U.S. COVID-19 deaths in 2020–2022, and the differences reflect data source (Johns Hopkins, CDC/MMWR, Statista aggregator), timing (preliminary vs. f...
The FBI’s public collection efforts on fatal police shootings are patchy and underreport compared with independent trackers; contemporary tallies from the Washington Post and Statista indicate police ...
No available sources show that Neuralink or another Elon Musk company has developed a treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Neuralink’s public materials reference neurotechnology and clinic...
COVID-19 remains a major cause of death because the virus is still circulating, it disproportionately kills older people and those with underlying conditions, and differences in reporting and health s...
Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) can interfere with the physiological and experiential elements required for orgasm — by causing pain, abnormal muscle tone, poor coordination, or reduced blood flow — an...
When measured per capita, Black Americans experienced about 6.1–6.2 fatal police shootings per million people per year versus roughly 2.4 per million for white Americans between 2015 and Dec. 2024 (Wa...