Search Results for 'Suicide'

Antidepressant-suicide link in youths absent in new analysis

In 2004, concerns about antidepressant drugs increasing suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young patients prompted the FDA to issue a rare "black box warning." Now, a new analysis of clinical trial data finds that treatment with [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Depressed over wife’s attempt to suicide, man ends life

A security guard allegedly committed suicide owing to depression over his wife’s attempt to commit suicide. The deceased is identified as Umesh, 30, a resident of Third Cross, Vivekananda Nagar in Hongasandra, and a native of Anekal [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Stop-Smoking Drug Increases Risk Of Depression Or Suicide

According to a new study, the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Chantix) carries too many risks and should be a last-resort option for trying to quit the habit. Researchers said that varenicline showed a substantially increased risk of [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Suicide Brain May Hold Key to Depression

A study that compared the brains of suicide victims to those of people who died suddenly from other causes found key differences in specific brain cells in the white matter of the brain. The finding lends support to the idea that inflamma [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Severe acne needs suicide risk checks: study

People receiving treatment for severe acne should be monitored for increased risk of attempting suicide, but it's unclear whether that is caused by the condition or the drug, a study says. Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Instit [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Depression and suicide thoughts said to be on the rise

Mental health professionals acknowledged yesterday that depression and suicidal thoughts are on the rise among the adolescent population. As the Grand Bahama Health Services prepares for a World Mental Health Day Symposium next week, emp [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Adriano considered suicide

THE mother of AS Roma forward Adriano has claimed her son wanted to commit suicide during the depths of his depression. Adriano walked out of Italy a year and a half ago when an Inter Milan player, citing depression as his reason for wan [...]

Posted On : Oct, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Suicides, depression cost Japan Sh2.6 trillion

Suicides and depression cost the Japanese economy almost 32 billion dollars last year on top of their human toll, the government said Tuesday, the first time it released such an estimate. Welfare payments and medical costs for the depres [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Depression is main cause of suicides

"Depression is sometimes described as a 'mental flu.' That may be because it is a common disease that can be cured easily. However, for me, depression was more like pneumonia that threatened my life," a woman wrote on her depression experie [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Depression, suicide prevalent in Latino/a youth

During the gloomy months of winter after the holidays, it is easy to feel depressed. Depression can take many forms and can be spurred by different situations. Although a difficult subject to discuss, suicide can stem from depression and a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Depression pill linked to suicide bids

Jude Pinkerton had an extreme personality change and tried to take her own life after taking a widely used antidepressant drug. This week, the 22-year-old spoke to the Weekend Herald to warn others off paroxetine hydrochloride, which she be [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Depression and Suicide

This program explains what teenage depression looks like and how to tell if it’s a serious issue. There is a story which chronicles one teen’s downward spiral into depression, culminating in a suicide attempt. Psychiatrist, Step [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Understanding depression and warning signs of suicide

Most people think of physical illness when asked about the most common causes of death. But suicide, which is almost always the result of mental illness, is the 11th-leading cause of death in the United States. Among young people between th [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Doctors Miss Suicide Signs

No doubt doctors know how to treat every ailment in a person as science has advanced so much and new treatments and medicines have been introduced in the field of depressed patients but even then there is something that is lacking in [...]