Researchers launch website on firearm deaths & injuries among children

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Nearly 28,000 American children and teens died because of firearms in the past decade -- second only to the 44,800 who died in motor vehicle collisions. But while the number of young people who die each year from car and truck crashes has fallen, it's stayed about the same for guns.A new website aims to change that by helping researchers, healthcare providers and others tackle prevention of youth firearm injuries as a public health issue.