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Nevada Bill To Outlaw Ghost Guns Could Reduce Violent Crime In California

April 20, 2021

Health

Dr. Garen Wintemute, who leads UC Davis Health’s Violence Prevention Research Program, told CapRadio's Insight that the rise in ghost guns threatens California’s recent progress in reducing gun violence.

Standing Equine PET Now in Clinical Use at UC Davis

by Amy Young
March 31, 2021

Health

UC Davis has welcomed the latest standing equine PET scanner, the MILEPET, into clinical use, less than six years after performing the world’s first PET scan on a horse.

Can new gun violence research find a path around the political stalemate?

March 27, 2021

Health

Dr. Garen J. Wintemute, who directs the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento, said he lost grant money after the Dickey Amendment was enacted. In the two decades that followed, he said, his work has been supported by the state of California, by foundations, as well as the N.I.H., which was not specifically named in the Dickey Amendment, and the Justice Department. He said he had also spent a little more than $2 million of his own money to continue the work.

Three graphics tell the story of mass shootings during the pandemic

March 24, 2021

Health

While killings like in Boulder are less common than routine gun violence or firearm suicide, they tend to have a profound effect on the public and on policymakers.

Gun violence spiked during pandemic, even as the deadliest mass shootings waned

March 23, 2021

Health

Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, an assistant professor who researches violence prevention at the University of California, Davis said that the COVID-19 pandemic likely played a major role in contributing to the rising violence.

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Aging In California

February 03, 2021

Health

UC Davis Health Professor Terri Harvath explains what the organization plans to focus on now and in the post-pandemic years.

Tom Nesbitt appearing to speak with someone via a computer screen in a health care setting.

Telemedicine pioneer

December 01, 2020

Health

Tom Nesbitt (B.A., psychology, ’75; M.D. ’79) launched the UC Davis Health System’s first telehealth program in 1992. Nesbitt’s pioneering leadership in telemedicine has been recognized by the American Telemedicine Association and the American Hospital Association.

As Anxieties Rise, Californians Buy Hundreds of Thousands More Guns

October 28, 2020

Health

Handgun sales in California have risen to unprecedented levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts say first-time buyers are driving the trend.

Freddy Torres of Buena Park shoots his gun at the Riverside Indoor Shooting Range

About 110,000 Californians have bought a gun since the coronavirus arrived, study says

October 20, 2020

Health

In the first five months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Californians bought new guns and changed the way they stored their firearms.

Concerns about violence increases in California amid COVID-19 pandemic

October 14, 2020

Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to an estimated 110,000 firearm purchases in California and increases in individuals’ worries about violence, according to a new study by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Program.