Suicide risks of health care workers in the US
About The Study: From a nationally representative cohort of approximately 1.84 million employed adults observed from 2008 through 2019, relative to ...
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How do suicide risk or depression screenings compare to identify patients at risk?
Editor’s Note: September is National Suicide Prevention Month. COLUMBUS, Ohio – Research led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center ...
Paper: Air pollution via wildfire smoke increases suicide risk in rural counties
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Air pollution poses well-established risks to physical health, but an emerging body of research says that it ...
Trends in suicide rates among post-9/11 veterans with and without traumatic brain injury
About The Study: In a large cohort of U.S. military veterans serving after 9/11, suicide rates increased more than 10-fold from ...
Does access to assisted suicide affect trends of conventional suicide among patients with cancer?
An analysis published in Cancer Medicine reveals the trends of self-initiated deaths—including assisted suicide (AS) and conventional suicide (CS)—in Switzerland ...
A call to improve mental health support to reduce the risks of self-harm and suicide in autistic individuals
Toronto, ON, August 9, 2023 – Autistic females (assigned sex at birth) have an 83% increased risk of self-harm leading ...
Unemployment and underemployment significant drivers of suicide: Analysis
A study examining unemployment and underemployment figures and suicide rates in Australia has found both were significant drivers of suicide ...
Factors associated with learning disabilities and autism led to requests for euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands, study finds
A Kingston University, London study found several people with learning disabilities and autism in the Netherlands chose to die legally ...
Researchers induce cancer cells to ‘commit suicide’ with a self-produced bacterial toxin
Novel approach to the fight against cancer: Credit: Tel Aviv University Novel approach to the fight against cancer: Researchers induce ...
Newly developed scoring system can correctly predict suicide risk after self harm
A newly developed risk calculator that is based on 11 key social, demographic, and clinical factors, can correctly predict suicide ...
Benzodiazepine use associated with brain injury, job loss and suicide
Benzodiazepine use and discontinuation is associated with nervous system injury and negative life effects that continue after discontinuation, according to ...
Lifetime burden of psychological symptoms, disorders, suicide due to cancer in children, adolescents, young adults
About The Study: This systematic review and meta-analysis including 52 studies found children, adolescent, and young adult patients with cancer experience ...
June issues of American Psychiatric Association journals cover substance use disorders, opioids, youth self-harm and suicide, and more
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 1, 2023 — The latest issues of two of the American Psychiatric Association’s journals, The American Journal ...
Only 16 US states provide free, detailed and updated suicide data from their prison systems, with 13 states providing incomplete data that was not always free, 8 states providing sparse or old data, and 13 states providing no data at all
Only 16 US states provide free, detailed and updated suicide data from their prison systems, with 13 states providing incomplete ...
Social stress, problem-solving deficits contribute to suicide risk for teen girls
Teen girls who have greater difficulty effectively solving interpersonal problems when they experience social stress, and who experience more interpersonal ...
Suicide prevention: University of Ottawa researcher proposes assisted dying model to transform prevention
Question: In your book you argue the suicidal are oppressed by structural suicidism, a hidden oppression. Alexandre Baril: “I coined ...
Researchers identify a brain marker indicating future suicide risk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 12, 2023 Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-358-7838, ginad@bu.edu Researchers Identify a Brain Marker Indicating Future Suicide Risk ...
Columbia University study finds that improved access to mental health care is associated with reductions in suicide risk
Amid historically high suicide rates and mental health care provider shortages, new research from Incite @ Columbia University suggests that ...
Alarming rates of teen suicide continue to increase in the US
In the United States suicide has become the second leading cause of premature death among those ages 10 to 24; ...
COVID-19 pandemic saw major increase in children and adolescents attempting suicide by poison, study finds
The rate of suspected suicide attempts by poisoning among children and adolescents ages 10-19 reported to U.S. poison centers increased ...
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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New findings on hair loss in men
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A novel role discovered for vagus nerve
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure
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Grant awarded to University of Louisville law professor will fund climate adaptation project
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Malta will host the 16th World Congress on Polyphenols Applications next week, with more than 210 participants