Japan draws up guidelines to cut suicide rate
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Japan set a target on Friday for cutting its suicide rate, one of the highest among industrial nations, by more than 20 percent over the next decade.
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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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New guidelines are issued to doctors on the use of some anti-depressants, amid growing concern about their safety.
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Counselling in schools is included in an action plan to reduce suicide levels in Wales says the health minister.
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A pair of federal advisory committees recommended Tuesday that drug companies apply stricter warnings to a host of popular antidepressants to alert doctors and patients about the increased risk of suicidal behavior in children and adolescents that take
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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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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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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whisked to a hospital a day after he resigned for exhaustion and psychological anguish, is the latest high-profile figure to seek treatment over work-related duress in a nation known for its stressed-out laborers.
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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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Several members of a federal advisory panel plan to call for tougher warnings that youths can become suicidal in the first weeks of taking antidepressants.
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WASHINGTON -- The people who prescribe antidepressants for children may have to have better training to spot warning signs of suicide.
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China plans to increase its efforts to prevent a further deterioration of mental health problems among its children and teenagers.
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More people kill themselves each   year than die from wars and murders combined, but most suicides   could be prevented, two international experts on suicide said   on Friday.
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SAITAMA - Two of the nine people found dead Tuesday in apparent suicide pacts are believed to have tried to kill themselves together earlier this month in a Tokyo suburb, police said Wednesday.
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acing mounting accusations of brutality, Japan's National Police set their first-ever guidelines for questioning methods Thursday in an attempt to rein in agents who go too far in pressuring suspects to confess
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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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Selling paracetamol and other painkillers in smaller packets  has drastically cut suicide rates, research suggests.