Two powerful new tests developed by psychologists show great promise in predicting patients' risk of attempting suicide. The work may help clinicians overcome their reliance on self-reporting by at-risk individuals, information that often proves misleading when suicidal patients wish to hide their intentions. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

Joshua's wife, just returning from the US, insisted on a joint HIV/AIDS test before sex. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)

Emergency department visits by patients presenting with mental health concerns may represent a missed opportunity to detect those at high risk for suicide. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

Emergency department visits by patients presenting with mental health concerns may represent a missed opportunity to detect those at high risk for suicide. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

Disciplinary Lapses Tied To High Rate Of Army Suicides: Report Cubicin Antibiotic Linked To Pneumonia: FDA Support Increases For New Health Care Law: Poll White House OKs Limited Enrollment Periods For Children's Health Insurance (Source: Primary Care News - Doctors Lounge)

Two powerful new tests developed by psychologists at Harvard University show great promise in predicting patients' risk of attempting suicide. The work may help clinicians overcome their reliance on self-reporting by at-risk individuals, information that often proves misleading when suicidal patients wish to hide their intentions. Both new tests are easily administered within minutes on a computer, giving quick insight into how patients are thinking about suicide, as well as their propensity to attempt suicide in the near future... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

Conclusion The study showed an association between the strength of social relationships and lower mortality rates. However, as the researchers highlighted, many different measures of the strength of social interactions are used, and this study does not classify what constitutes a healthy social life. Owing to the high variability of the studies included in this meta-analysis, the researchers looked at social relationships in very broad terms. There are some limitations to this research, some of which the authors highlight: Behavioural risk factors for disease, such as smoking and drinking alcohol, were adjusted for in some but not all of the studies included in this meta-analysis. Some of the effect on mortality may, therefore, be due to these and other factors that were not adjusted fo...

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Conclusions and Implications : Active principles of C. collinus inhibit proton pumps in the renal brush border, resulting in type I DRTA in rats. There is no inhibition of sodium-potassium pump activity. Test animals develop respiratory acidosis, and the immediate cause of death is respiratory arrest. (Source: Indian Journal of Pharmacology)

Air pollution and asthma may cause as many as one in 14 suicides in Taiwan, a report has suggested. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

Air pollution and asthma may cause as many as one in 14 suicides in Taiwan, a report has suggested. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)

Many mental health patients who later commit suicide visit the emergency department in the year prior to their death, with some individuals visiting frequently, according to a study published online July 26 in the Emergency Medical Journal. (Source: Modern Medicine)

This article does not focus on the arguments for or against euthanasia and the ethical justification of physician-assisted dying. These arguments have been described extensively in Kimsma and Van Leeuwen (Asking to die. Inside the Dutch debate about euthanasia, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998). Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Scientific ContributionDOI 10.1007/s11019-010-9265-0Authors G. K. Kimsma, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Journal Medicine, Health Care and PhilosophyOnline ISSN 1572-8633Print ISSN 1386-7423 (Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy)

This article examines the impact of the 1889–93 ‘Russian’ influenza on late Victorian society and culture. Using medical officer of health and national and local newspaper reports, and the poetry and memoirs of prominent survivors, I argue that the rapid progress of the influenza across Europe and the morbidity of leading politicians and other members of the British establishment occasioned widespread ‘dread’ and in some cases panic. This dread of influenza was fuelled by the high mortality rate in northern towns such as Sheffield, as well as by the disease's association with pneumonia, neurasthenia, psychosis and suicide. However, the key factor was the growth of mass circulation newspapers and the way that the influenza drew on fin de siècle cultural ...

For several hours yesterday doctors at the Alkawary Hospital, Nyanya-Gwandara in Karu L.G.A of Nasarawa State battled valiantly to save the life of a young lady who tried to commit suicide following her inability to get money to pay her West Africa Examination Certificate (WAEC) fees. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires a warning of an increased risk of suicide for all epilepsy drugs, a new study shows that only certain drugs may increase the risk. The study is published in the July 27, 2010, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Newer drugs with a higher risk of causing depression than other epilepsy drugs, such as levetiracetam, topiramate and vigabatrin, were found to increase the risk of self-harm or suicidal behavior among people with epilepsy... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

Funding Opportunity Number: FR-RRD-10-023 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 20.313Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name DOT-FRA (Source: Grants.gov)

New epilepsy drugs which are known to induce depression in patients also raise the risk of suicide, a new UK study has shown (Source: Pharmacy Europe)

(Harvard University) Two powerful new tests developed by psychologists at Harvard University show great promise in predicting patients' risk of attempting suicide. The work may help clinicians overcome their reliance on self-reporting by at-risk individuals, information that often proves misleading when suicidal patients wish to hide their intentions. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

Only newer AEDs with high potential of causing depression were linked to increased suicide risk in a new study. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)