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Restricted food intake a predictor of increased suicide attempts in Body Dysmorphic Disorder patients

Rhode Island Hospital and Auburn University researchers found a link between restrictive food intake, or excessive dieting, and an increase in suicide attempts in people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). The study focused ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ketamine improved bipolar depression within minutes

Bipolar disorder is a serious and debilitating condition where individuals experience severe swings in mood between mania and depression. The episodes of low or elevated mood can last days or months, and the risk of suicide ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists see potential in novel leukemia treatment

Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center may be one step closer to developing a new therapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) after discovering that the targeted agents obatoclax and sorafenib kill ...

Cancer created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Psychiatric units safer as in-patient suicide falls

Suicides by psychiatric in-patients have fallen to a new low, research published today has found.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fall in deaths involving painkiller co-proxamol after drug withdrawn in UK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

Debate flares over assisted suicide

Doreen Dunn had lived in pain for a decade by the time she killed herself in May 2007.

Health created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fewer suicides after antidepressive treatment for schizophrenia

(Medical Xpress) -- Antidepressive drugs reduce the mortality rate of schizophrenic patients, while treatment with bensodiazepines greatly increases it, especially as regards suicide. Giving several antipsychotics simultaneously, ...

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Pro-bowler suicide raises questions of early concussion detection

Before beginning his 20-year career playing football in the NFL, Junior Seau starred at the University of Southern California and in high school. According to Chris Hummel, a certified athletic trainer and ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Suicide risk for older people who self-harm

Older people who self-harm are at much greater risk of suicide than both the general population and younger adults who self-harm, a new study has found. Researchers from The University of Manchester studied 1,177 people over ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Key protein's newly discovered form and function may provide novel cancer treatment target

Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators suggests that safeguarding cell survival and maintaining a balanced immune system is just the start of the myeloid cell leukemia sequence 1 (MCL1) protein's ...

Cancer created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bullied children 3 times more likely to self harm

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.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physical abuse may raise risk of suicidal thoughts

The study, published online this month in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, found that approximately one-third of adults who were physically abused in childhood had seriously considered taking their own li ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | 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 ...

Cancer created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Killing in war linked with suicidal thoughts among Vietnam veterans, study finds

The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the University of California, San ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Risk of suicide and fatal heart attack immediately following a cancer diagnosis

(Medical Xpress) -- People who are diagnosed with cancer have a markedly increased risk of suicide and cardiovascular death during the period immediately after being given the diagnosis. This has been shown in a new study ...

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