News tagged with suicide rates

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NC coal plant emissions might play role in state suicide numbers

New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finds that suicide, while strongly associated with psychiatric conditions, also correlates with environmental pollution.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 13, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Statistics show people more likely to die on their birthday

(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 ...

Health created Jun 12, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Suicide now kills more Americans than car crashes: study

(HealthDay)—More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One million people commit suicide each year: WHO

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.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 07, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

US suicide rates have increased since economic crisis began

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.

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Better NHS services reduce suicide rates

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.

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Computer game aims to zap teen depression

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.

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Study links suicide risk with rates of gun ownership, political conservatism

(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 ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 05, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A promising discovery for breast cancer therapy

(Medical Xpress) -- Could engineered human stem cells hold the key to cancer survival? Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research ...

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US Army suicides rose 80 percent between 2004 and 2008

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.

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Suicide rates in Canada increasing in girls aged 10-19

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).

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Fall in deaths involving painkiller co-proxamol after drug withdrawn in UK

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 ...

Medications created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NYC suicide rate 29 percent higher at economy's nadir vs. peak

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.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research suggests suicide rates higher in Protestant areas than Catholic

Research from the University of Warwick suggests suicide rates are much higher in protestant areas than catholic areas.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Suicide attempts by poisoning found to be less likely around major holidays

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 ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0