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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)

Suicide Gene Combination Targets Breast Cancer
A new 'mix and match' cancer therapy is being unveiled at the British Endocrine Societies meeting in Birmingham today.   view more (2000-03-07)

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)

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)

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)

Antidepressants in suicide prevention
Depression is the most important single factor predisposing to suicide, and more than half of all subjects completing suicide are known to have suffered from depression.   view more (2008-07-09)

Counseling after suicide has no effect on grief, but helps prevent feelings of blame
A grief counselling programme for families bereaved by suicide does not reduce grief or depression, but may help to prevent perceptions of blame among close relatives and spouses, finds a study published on bmj.com today.   view more (2007-04-20)

Suicide The Leading Cause Of Death Among Young Adults In China (pp 813, 835)
A study in this week's issue of THE LANCET describes the incidence of suicide among people living in China, highlighting that it is the most common cause of death in young adults, three times more frequent in rural areas than urban environments, and 25% more common in women than men. A wide range... view more (2002-03-06)

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 rates fell as fluoxetine prescriptions increased
Suicide rates in the US fluctuated from the early 1960s until 1988, after which they showed a gradual decline that might have been linked to the introduction of the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), according to a new study in PLoS Medicine.   view more (2006-06-13)

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)

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)

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)

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)

"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)

Leading Security Experts Research UK Suicide Bomb Risk
The risks of a lone suicide bomber targeting crowded areas in the UK like bars, shopping centres or the underground has been under intense research and investigation for the past 12 months. Resilience and security experts at Cranfield University, in partnership with the Defence Academy of the UK,... view more (2004-05-04)

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)

Anxiety disorders increase risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts
A pre-existing anxiety disorder significantly increases the risk of a subsequent onset of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.   view more (2005-11-08)

New evidence challenges recent changes in venlafaxine advice
In December 2004 the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency announced that, from that date, only specialists could prescribe venlafaxine. This change in advice followed three recently published observational studies, each of which concluded that patients prescribed antidepressants... view more (2005-05-05)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Adolescent insomnia linked to depression and substance abuse during adolescence and young adulthood
A study in the Oct. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that adolescent insomnia symptoms are associated with depression, suicide ideation and attempts, and the use of alcohol, cannabis and other drugs such as cocaine.   view more (2008-10-01)

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)
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