Congress asked to lift 1996 amendment on bill that effectively banned Centers for Disease Control from researching guns as a ‘serious public health threat’A coalition of more than 100 medical groups is asking Congress to fund research on gun violence at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to finish a decades-long drought of federal public health research on the subject.
The groups sent a letter on Wednesday requesting that Congress “finish the dramatic chilling effect of the current rider language restricting gun violence research and to fund this critical work”.
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Source: theguardian.com