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Teenage suicides: Study advocates greater family support
Teenage suicide is often perceived as the result of rejection of family, significant others and of society. Families affected by teenage suicide often look back for warning signs and clues in order to make sense of the tragedy.   view more (2008-04-22)

Unemployment Can Triple Risk Of Suicide
Unemployment carries up to three times the risk of suicide, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The findings held true even after taking account of risk factors, such as household income, education, and marital status. The researchers based their findings on the... view more (2003-07-25)

Young adults not at risk of suicidal behavior from antidepressants
Antidepressants lower the risk of suicide attempt in adults with depression, according to a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.   view more (2007-07-09)

Recognising mental illness in young people could prevent suicides
Recognising mental illness in young people and dealing with it appropriately could help prevent suicides, concludes a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers in Denmark identified 496 cases of suicide during 1981-97 in young people aged 10-21 years. They matched each case to a random sample of 50... view more (2002-07-10)

What happens in Vegas? Place as a risk factor for suicide
Every day 85 Americans die by suicide and hundreds of thousands more make attempts every year. The vast majority of recent studies on suicide have focused on identifying psychiatric risk factors.   view more (2008-11-12)

Guns in homes strongly associated with higher rates of suicide
In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of suicide in the U.S., researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that suicide rates among children, women and men of all ages... view more (2007-04-11)

Regular follow-up important during antidepressant treatment
Because individuals can react differently to antidepressant medications, regular follow-up is important during the first few weeks of treatment, according to an editorial by Group Health psychiatrist and researcher Greg Simon, MD, MPH.   view more (2006-11-01)

Availability of co-proxamol should be restricted
The painkiller co-proxamol is the second most common prescribed drug that people use to commit suicide in England and Wales, and its availability should be restricted, say researchers in this week’s BMJ.   view more (2003-05-07)

Why Patients Request Euthanasia or Physician-assisted Suicide (pp 344, 362)
A qualitative study in this week's issue of THE LANCET provides a new insight into why patients request euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. Results of the study have implications for both clinicians and policymakers in the controversial issue of end-of-life care.    The... view more (2001-08-01)

Increased suicide risk from low birthweight babies and those born to teenage mothers (pp 1102, 1135)
Results of a prospective population study from Sweden in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlight how low birthweight and being born to a teenage mother are independent risk factors associated with increased risk of suicide in later life. The study also shows how being born fourth or more in... view more (2004-09-22)

"Suicide gene" injection shrinks cancer growth
Injectable "suicide gene" therapy may be a highly effective way of preventing colon cancer from spreading (metastasising), finds research in Gut. Human colon cancer carries a high risk of death because it is often not found in the early stages and readily spreads to the liver, but also the lungs... view more (2002-02-08)

Children and teens taking antidepressants might be more likely to attempt, complete suicide
Antidepressant medications may be associated with suicide attempts and death in severely depressed children and adolescents but not in adults.   view more (2006-08-08)

New study suggests antidepressants save lives
A just published UCLA study suggests that the use of antidepressants to treat depression has saved thousands of lives, despite the concern about a possible link between suicide risk and the class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI).   view more (2006-06-13)

Antidepressant paroxetine linked to higher rate of suicide attempts in adults
Adult patients taking the antidepressant drug paroxetine are at higher risk of attempting to commit suicide than those not taking medication.   view more (2005-08-22)

Suicide risk does not increase when adults start using antidepressants, study finds
The risk of serious suicide attempts or death by suicide generally decreases in the weeks after patients start taking antidepressant medication.   view more (2006-01-03)

Sleep disturbances, nightmares are common among suicide attempters: Journal Sleep
In the first known report of its kind, a study published in the January 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that sleep disturbances are common among suicide attempters, and that nightmares are associated with suicidality.   view more (2007-01-02)

Should the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide be changed?
Next month's debate in the House of Lords could begin the process of changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.   view more (2005-09-23)

Study links attempted suicide with genetic evidence identified in previous suicide research
A Johns Hopkins-led study has found evidence that a genetic tendency toward suicide has been linked to a particular area of the genome on chromosome 2 that has been implicated in two additional recent studies of attempted suicide.   view more (2007-02-20)

Study reveals high suicide rate among young people in India (pp 1090, 1117)
Authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlight how suicide among young people in India--especially among young women--is a major public-health problem requiring urgent intervention. The average suicide rate worldwide is around 14"¢5 per 100000 population (rates are... view more (2004-03-31)

Do SSRI Antidepressants Increase Suicide Risk? No, Yes, ..Which Database Are You Using?
Previous reports have suggested that the use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors may be associated with increased suicide risk. An analysis published in the Am J Psychiatry in the April 2003 issue (pp. 790-792) fails to substantiate this relationship. These Authors used an FDA database. But... view more (2003-05-08)

US suicide rate increasing
The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy.   view more (2008-10-21)

Antidepressants linked to lower child suicide rates
esearchers report an inverse relationship between antidepressant prescriptions and the rates of suicide in children and adolescents - a finding that contradicts the Food and Drug Administration's "black box" warning for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications, also known as... view more (2006-11-02)

Suicide bomber sensors would not reduce casualties
Sensors to detect suicide bombers before they can reach a target and detonate explosives would not substantially reduce deaths and injuries in urban settings, Yale researchers report in the July early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).   view more (2005-07-05)

New tool to assess suicide risk among psychiatric patients
Predicting suicide in psychiatric patients is notoriously difficult but could be made more accurate following pioneering research by the University of Southampton. After examining hundreds of inquest files the study team have identified 11 personal and clinical factors that substantially increase... view more (2001-06-29)

Child abuse may 'mark' genes in the brains of suicide victims
A team of McGill University scientists has discovered important differences between the brains of suicide victims and so-called normal brains. Although the genetic sequence was identical in the suicide and non-suicide brains, there were differences in their epigenetic marking - a chemical coating... view more (2008-05-07)
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