Making Sense of the Great Suicide Debate
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The darkness of the soul encounters the science of pharmaceuticals.
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A Food and Drug Administration epidemiologist who triggered a closer look at suicidal behavior among children taking antidepressants cited independent experts at hearings Monday who he said support his findings.    In addition to seeing increases in suicidal thoughts among children receiving all the antidepressants he studied, Dr...
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Health researchers have found a strong association between higher body mass index and a lower risk of suicide.
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It may be time to stop defining death purely in medical terms, an academic argues.
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Depressed men and women who consider themselves affiliated with a religion are less likely to attempt suicide than their non-religious counterparts, according to new study findings.
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The apparent suicide of a University of Georgia researcher at ground zero in New York over the weekend has family, friends and colleagues struggling to understand what happened.
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September 10 might be familiar to most people as Teachers&#39; Day, but few people know it is also World Suicide Prevention Day. Launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Association
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The Lab judging panel will be busy this weekend picking a winner in the speak-to-the-Prime-Designer contest. (You can still enter today.) As they toil tirelessly, let us ponder this designerâs ethics, and whether it&#8217;s better to live in simulated joy or be really miserable. The posthuman Prime Designer may not care much what our puny [...].
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A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandâjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americaâs schools. How to spot trouble before it opens fireâand the ongoing debate over blame for a cycle that just wonât stop.
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The growing popularity of the Internet could lead to a rise in suicide pacts in which several people kill themselves together, a leading psychiatrist in Britain said on Friday.
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Thereâs still a number of outstanding issues, some in the public domain. Itâs fairly obvious what they are. âWe will continue over the next day or so to bring those to conclusions.
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NEW YORK  - The largest study of suicidal behaviors ever conducted has found that 9.2 percent of the world's population has contemplated suicide, but fewer than 3 percent actually make an attempt.
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The revelation that Steven P. Kazmierczak stopped taking Prozac before fatally shooting five college students and himself is likely to fuel the debate over the drugâs risks and benefits.
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A backlash over a spate of advertising with suicide themes has raised questions about ads that are deliberately provocative.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are taking powerful anti-depressants with possible side-effects that include suicidal thoughts and self-harm when options such as counselling
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Â· Rise in suicides to one-third of all deaths Â· Campaign group blames overcrowding Â· Mentally ill inmates 'need care, not punishment'
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The great and fateful question has long been in the air: now, with the death-bed dramas over at last, it occupies centre stage. Not just who will follow him, but, in a larger sense, what?