Homicide Drops Off Us List Of Top Causes Of Death

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer, San Francisco Chronicle
Wed, 01/11/2012 - 10:16am

Homicide

(01-11) 09:16 PST ATLANTA, (AP) -- For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top 15 causes of death, government health officials said Wednesday. Murder dropped enough in 2010 that...

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