Advertising: Critics to Marketers: Suicide Is No Joke
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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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NEW YORK  - Antidepressant drug treatment is associated with a reduced risk of completed suicides and overall mortality among adults, although it also appears to increase the likelihood of nonfatal suicide attempts, according to a research team in Finland.
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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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Agency wants to learn if drugs can lead to suicide in young people; most major drugmakers impacted. NEW YORK  - The Food and Drug Administration is expected to call for changes to labels for antidepressants to reflect a new agency analysis ...
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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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It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong, and it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better.
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Federal health advisers considered Monday whether strong warning labels were needed on antidepressants because they have been linked to suicidal tendencies among children who take them.
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Advertisers are seeking ways to show that they care about the tsunami, but they are also striving to avoid the appearance of capitalizing on the disaster.
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There's no escaping advertising. Show even a modicum of success, and marketers start looking for a way in. Really Simple Syndication feeds are the latest target. By Daniel Terdiman.
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The word "gaming" is making its way onto the whiteboards of advertising conference rooms on a regular basis these days. As a proponent of this industry's viability as a communication platform for brands, I think that's great progress. We've collectively woken up to the fact that pimple-faced teenagers are not the only ones playing games (for those of you not in the know, these guys aren't even the typical game consumers anymore, nor have they been for quite a few years now).
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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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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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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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Antidepressants should come with the nation's strongest warning -- in a black box on the label -- that they can sometimes spur suicidal behavior.
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A collaborative care program  reduces thoughts of suicide, and potentially the risk of actual  suicide, among depressed elderly people, a study shows.
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By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK - Some of the most creative thinking in television these days has nothing to do with comedy or drama. It's about the commercials. Fueled by a growing sense of desperation, networks are inserting games, quizzes and mini-dramas into commercial breaks.
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By Andrew Maykuth, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 2--An out-of-control guerrilla marketing campaign for a late-night Cartoon Network program has reinforced one fact of American life after 9/11: The war on terror is no joke.