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The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-suicide-rose-sharply-middle-aged.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 02 May 2013 13:50:01 EST news286721222 Although guns are used in over half of all American suicides, a new study shows that many emergency room doctors and nurses do not routinely ask suicidal patients about their access to firearms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-emergency-department-dont-suicidal-patients.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:14:49 EST news284030039 The number of deaths and liver transplants due to paracetamol overdoses has significantly reduced thanks to UK legislation to make pack sizes smaller, a paper published today in BMJ suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-percent-reduction-deaths-paracetamol-due.html Medications Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:30:02 EST news279472443 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the fate of certain painkillers that contain an opioid known as hydrocodone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-tougher-restrictions-prescription.html Medications Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:20:01 EST news278262973 Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will worsen this year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-military-suicides-high.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:24:58 EST news277403091 (HealthDay)—More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-suicide-americans-car.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:40:01 EST news267382998 People who have a history of self-harm are more than three times as likely to die prematurely as the general population, and not just from the obvious causes, with deaths due to natural causes at least two times greater than anticipated and the risk also much higher for individuals living in socially deprived areas, according to a UK study published Online First in The Lancet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-people-self-harm-die-prematurely-due.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:30:05 EST news267099132 (AP)—The Obama administration is urging a new focus on preventing suicides, especially among military veterans—and is beefing up the nation's crisis hotline to help. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-govt-urges-focus-suicides.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:20:01 EST news266500214 (Medical Xpress) -- The global financial crisis has contributed to an increase in the rates of suicide and attempted suicide for economic reasons in Italy, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-financial-crisis-blame-suicides-italy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:30:02 EST news264759371 (Phys.org) -- Researchers studying mortality rates on over two million people over a forty year time span have found that statistically speaking, people are more likely to die on their birthday, than any other day of the year. Bumping the numbers are suicides by men, who apparently find the ultimate milestone a little too hard to bear. But those deaths aren’t enough to account for the overall fourteen percent increased likelihood that any given person will die on the same day of the years as the day they were born compared to any other day of the year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-statistics-people-die-birthday.html Health Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:39:04 EST news258716282 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 Children who are bullied in childhood are up to three times more likely to self harm up to the age of 12, a study published today on BMJ suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-bullied-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:30:04 EST news254676999 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 Top Russian psychiatrists on Friday called for urgent measures to battle the soaring teenage suicide rate, one of the world's highest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-russia-alarm-spiralling-teenage-suicides.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:00:01 EST news248089268 Coroners are more likely to hold inquests for deaths involving younger people or people who died of fatal complications from medical care, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-inquests-younger-people-deaths-medical.html Health Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:03 EST news247144846 Violent deaths are outpacing traditional causes of maternal mortality, such as hemorrhage and preeclampsia, and conflicts with intimate partner are often a factor, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-homicide-suicide-outpace-traditional-death.html Health Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:11:14 EST news238385433 Russia must launch a public health campaign to reduce the country's suicide rate, among the highest in the world, top psychiatrists said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-russia-tackle-critical-suicide-experts.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:20:59 EST news238335650 A soldier kills himself and his wife. Another war veteran hangs himself in despair. Yet a third puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger outside a gas station in a confrontation with Texas lawmen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-suicide-shadow-decade-war.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:08:07 EST news233287667 (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