Health

A small-scale sheep farm in California is the first in the Western United States to have the Awassi breed in its herd.

UC Davis released three studies focusing on key issues in preventing gun violence. The studies are among the first from the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center, which began publicly funding the effects of gun violence in 2017.

UC Davis researchers receive $1.5 million grant from NIH's HEAL Initiative

Garen Wintemute, the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at University of California, Davis, said that it will take more than universal background checks and extreme risk protection orders to prevent future mass shootings.

For Hugo Campus Jr., a UC Davis research-study partner, keeping his dad healthy, safe and at home are top priorities – as is managing his own inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and diastolic dysfunction.

According to Dr. Garen Wintemute, champion of the Center for Violence Prevention Research Big Idea, closing the private sales loophole would make it more difficult for criminals to avoid creating a paper trail or for a prohibit a banned person from buying a firearm. 

Researchers have found a link between a spike in handgun purchases that took place following the Sandy Hook shooting and the re-election of President Barack Obama, and injuries caused by firearms in California.

Via Newsweek

A new UC Davis study has found that cities that experience increases in gun purchases also experience more gun-related injuries.

A recent study found that spikes in handgun purchases have been linked to a 4 percent increase in firearm injury in California.

A study from the University of California, Davis, identifies a parasite that is killing southern sea otters, tracing them back to a bobcat and feral domestic cats from nearby watersheds.