64%
The percentage of yearly deaths from firearms in the United States that are suicides, as of 2012, according to a study in the Annual Review of Public Healthopens in new window. That percentage has been increasing over the past decade. In 2006, it was 57 percent.
9.3%
The increase in daily calories worth of food that people purchase in the post-holiday season from January through March, compared with the amount they purchase from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day — despite new year's resolutions to eat more healthily — according to a study in PLOS ONEopens in new window.
9.6 million
The number of Americans who would lose their health insurance if the subsidies in the Affordable Care Act were eliminated, according to an analysisopens in new window by the Rand Corporation.
11%
The percentage of youth in the United States who will suffer from major depressive disorder during their teens, according to a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatryopens in new window. Three percent will suffer from severe major depressive disorder.
