http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. President Obama officially declared June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month. However, despite advances in civil rights, sexual minority youth are still at greater risk for suicide than their heterosexual peers, according to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center. A University of Missouri psychology graduate student recently published recommendation to improve psychologists' treatment of sexual minority youth, which could help improve psychological functioning and reduce depression and suicide rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-sexual-minority-youth-specialized-treatment.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:20:57 EST news290780447 New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finds that suicide, while strongly associated with psychiatric conditions, also correlates with environmental pollution. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-nc-coal-emissions-role-state.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 13 May 2013 16:52:38 EST news287682753 (Medical Xpress)—Residents of states with the highest rates of gun ownership and political conservatism are at greater risk of suicide than those in states with less gun ownership and less politically conservative leanings, according to a study by University of California, Riverside sociology professor Augustine J. Kposowa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-links-suicide-gun-ownership-political.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:10:02 EST news284363430 With suicide rates among veterans on the rise, another problem facing veterans also is capturing the public's attention. Service members suffering from moral injury are feeling profound guilt and shame for things they may have done—or not done—in combat, or for events they may have witnessed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-moral-injury-issues-combat-veterans.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:50:01 EST news281953420 (Medical Xpress)—Suicide risk patterns accelerate up to the age of 20 before moderately levelling off, according to a new report published in the Cambridge Journal of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-pattern-suicide-age.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:17:57 EST news273403030 A new report from researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds the majority of the previously reported increase in suicide in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010 is attributable to an increase in hanging/suffocation, which increased from 19 percent of all suicides in 2000 to 26 percent of all suicides in 2010. The largest increase in hanging/suffocation occurred among those aged 45-59 years (104 percent increase). The results are published in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-suicide-hangingsuffocation-middle-aged-men-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:20:01 EST news272562885 Suicide rates in the US have risen sharply since the economic crisis took hold in 2007, warn the authors of Correspondence published Online First in The Lancet today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-suicide-economic-crisis-began.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:30:01 EST news271242154 A joint study by University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Emergency Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center researchers has found that, in contrast to popular opinion, major holidays are associated with a lower number of suicide attempts by poisoning. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-suicide-poisoning-major-holidays.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:39:57 EST news269249990 Between rice fields and coconut trees on Indonesia's "paradise" island of Bali, a man lies chained by the ankles to a rotting wooden bed in a garden, staring at roosters tottering by. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-indonesia-mentally-ill-shackled-forgotten.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:50:48 EST news269063412 One million people die by their own hand each year, accounting for more deaths than wars and murders put together, the World Health Organisation said Friday, calling for urgent action to address the problem. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-million-people-commit-suicide-year.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:09:12 EST news266249336 Long viewed as a contributing factor in teenage isolation, computer games are now being used to treat adolescent depression in an innovative New Zealand programme. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-game-aims-zap-teen-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:46:17 EST news262925146 People who grew up in the worst years of 'The Troubles ' are more prone to suicide in Northern Ireland, according to new research carried out at Queen's University Belfast. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-children-prone-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:20:01 EST news262369940 Suicides by psychiatric in-patients have fallen to a new low, research published today has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-psychiatric-safer-in-patient-suicide-falls.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:01 EST news256406433 During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. These are the findings of a study by Keith Hawton of the University of Oxford, UK and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fall-deaths-involving-painkiller-co-proxamol.html Medications Tue, 08 May 2012 17:00:04 EST news255711866 Suicide rates in Canada are increasing for girls but decreasing for boys, with suffocation now the most common method for both sexes, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-suicide-canada-girls-aged-.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:03 EST news252584597 New evidence on the link between suicide and the economy shows that the monthly suicide rate in New York City from 1990 to 2006 was 29% higher at the economic low point in 1992 than at the peak of economic growth in 2000. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-nyc-suicide-percent-higher-economy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:23:26 EST news251050983 Research from the University of Warwick suggests suicide rates are much higher in protestant areas than catholic areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-suicide-higher-protestant-areas-catholic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:34:21 EST news250849957 Suicides among US army personnel rose 80 per cent between 2004 and 2008, finds research by US Army Public Health Command and published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-army-suicides-rose-percent.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250359449 Death rates of Japanese men in managerial or professional positions have risen dramatically in 30 years compared to other professions, claims a study published today in the British Medical Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-death-due-economic-collapse.html Health Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250269938 A new study has revealed the widening gap in suicide rates between Scotland and England & Wales due to a large extent to the number of young Scottish men taking their lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-gap-scottish-english-suicide-widens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:24:36 EST news247983839 Researchers at The University of Manchester have for the first time shown a positive link between improvements in mental health services and a reduction in suicide rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-nhs-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:00:02 EST news247337131 (Medical Xpress) -- Chair of Mental Health at the University of South Australia, Professor Nicholas Procter, says Christmas is a special opportunity for family and friends to re-connect with people - some of who have mental health problems and mental illness, as a means of building resilience to self harm in the New Year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-coping-year-blues-christmas.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:56:53 EST news243597403 (AP) -- More adults in the Midwest and West have suicidal thoughts than people in the rest of the country, but Rhode Island leads in suicide attempts, according to the first government study of its kind. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-midwest-west-highest-contemplating-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:52:25 EST news238348328 Canada needs to adopt a national suicide prevention strategy, and physicians can play a key role in the strategy, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-canada-national-suicide-strategy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:23:26 EST news238072992 The increasing use of "narrative verdicts" by coroners in England and Wales may be leading to greater underestimation of suicide rates, warn experts in the British Medical Journal today, based on ongoing research part funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-accuracy-suicide-england-wales.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:19:39 EST news237179972 A person tries to kill themselves in China every two minutes, the government and state media said Thursday, giving the country one of the highest suicide rates in the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-china-suicide-highest-world.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:39:42 EST news234689529 (Medical Xpress) -- Suicide rates among people with mental illness in England and Wales have fallen over the last decade, latest figures show. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-uk-suicide-homicide-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:50:00 EST news230287791 Alcohol and drugs are fuelling homicide and suicide rates in Northern Ireland, a new independent report by University of Manchester researchers has found, with alcohol appearing to be a key factor for the country's higher suicide rates, including among mental health patients, compared to England and Wales. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-alcohol-blamed-high-suicide-northern.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:05:35 EST news228539120 If the United States follows the pattern that occurred after the economic crisis in Japan, public health officials should watch for a significant increase in suicides, particularly in the baby boom population, concluded a study scheduled for presentation at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-economic-distress-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 18 May 2011 12:35:49 EST news224940933