WASHINGTON —TheU.S. surgeon generalon Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grapp...
Serving as the U.S. Surgeon General, currently under President Biden and previously under Barack Obama, Dr. Vivek Murthy has led the nation’s response to a range of public health emergencies, including the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, the opioid crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet unlike ...
“If adequate funding is provided, our country will be in a position of strength, well situated to manage COVID-19 and to adapt our response as future variants emerge,” Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Chief Science Officer David Kessler of the White House COVID response team wrote in a ...
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy talks to reporters during the daily news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Specifically, in the religious community, the number of research participants...
Parents are stressed out, which can deteriorate their mental health and well-being — which in turn can negatively affect children, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said in anadvisoryWednesday. Murthy — who in the past has issued advisoriesrelated to gun violence, social media use and ...
The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declaredgun violencea public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involvingfirearmsin the country. The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another ...