More killed by suicide than war
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World Health Organisation figures show a suicide takes place somewhere in the world every 40 seconds.
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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.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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The severely mentally ill are more likely to die from heart and circulatory problems than is the general population, said a British study.
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New research suggests that suicide risk factors are heightened in rural areas by social isolation, lack of mental health care and the easy availability of guns.
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Study says effects of decade of fighting continue to kill thousands of people - half of them small children
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Violence in Iraq, as measured by casualties among troops and civilians, has edged higher despite the U.S.-led security push in Baghdad, the Pentagon told Congress on Wednesday
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Intelligent young men are less likely to take their own lives than others, researchers have found.
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For every American soldier killed in Iraq, nine others have been wounded and survived &#151; the highest rate of any war in U.S. history. It isn't that their injuries were less serious, a new report says. In fact, some young soldiers and Marines have had faces, arms and legs blown off and are now returning home badly maimed.
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Their deaths shook a nation that had grown used to the slowly mounting U.S. military casualties in Iraq.
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The first scientific survey to assess the deadly nature of the conflict in the Sudan&#39;s Darfur region has found that death rates there were three to 10 times higher than normally found
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Researchers have estimated that as many as 100,000 more Iraqis - many of them women and children - died since the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq than would have been expected otherwise, based on the death rate before the war.
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LONDON - As many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout Iraq since the US-led invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war, a survey indicates.
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Latest fatalities raise the death toll of American soldiers this month to 68.
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There is a report out today in The Lancet (discussed here in the Guardian) which attempts to measure the number of deaths from coalition actions in Iraq .
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Alcohol may be involved in as many as one-third of U.S. suicides, federal researchers reported on Thursday.
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New research shows mental illness is neglected in the developing world and up to 800,000 commit suicide each year.