Midlife Suicide Rises, Puzzling Researchers
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The suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004, the latest year studied.
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Many elderly adults who are in mental decline and live alone may be at high risk of hurting themselves or falling ill, a new study shows.
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Deaths from brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease appear to have soared in the past two decades in the world's most developed nations, and researchers are blaming the increase ...
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The number of Japanese who killed themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising to account for more than a third of the total, police said on Thursday.
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That&#39;s the conclusion of a study in the most recent issue of The Lancet that found if you were born to a teenage mother or had a low birth weight, the odds are higher that you might commit suicide as a teenager or young adult.
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Having a teenage mother can double a person&#39;s risk of committing suicide, according to a new study. Swedish researchers found that babies born to women in their teens were twice as likely to kill themselves
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A U.S. report shows a rise in youth suicides after a decade of decline, with no clear explanation
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Male U.S. veterans are twice as likely to die by suicide than people with no military service, and are more likely to kill themselves with a gun than others who commit suicide, researchers said on Monday.
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Some local doctors are not thrilled with a national study on anti-depression. The Food and Drug Administration says drugs, like Prozac and Paxil, can increase the chances of suicide among children and teens.
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A new study adds to evidence that women with cosmetic breast implants have a higher rate of suicide than other women and shows, for the first time, that they may be more likely to have a history of psychiatric illness as well.
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New Orleans' suicide rate appears to have gone up in the first six months after Hurricane Katrina evacuees were allowed back home, but the increase could be due to chance instead of post-storm depression, a study by Louisiana's epidemiologist says.
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Researchers find that weight gain in middle-age occurs in two distinct phases.
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The use of some antidepressant drugs appears linked to an increase in suicidal behavior in some children and teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded on Tuesday.
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Breast cancer survivors are 37  percent more likely to commit suicide than other women, and the  elevated risk persists for at least 25 years after diagnosis,  according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer  Institute.
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The suicide rate for young people increased for the first time in nearly 15 years. What's going on? And what do worried parents need to watch out for?
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Now a team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress - like that caused by divorce, the loss of a job, or caring for an ill child or parent - may speed up the aging of the body&#39;s cells at the genetic level.
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A suicide takes place somewhere around  the world every 40 seconds, or nearly one million a year, and  the rate looks set to surge over the next two decades,  international health experts said on Wednesday.