Suicide News

At the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, the Lancet Commission unveiled two new modifiable risk factors for dementia: high cholesterol and vision loss.

Results of a decadeslong study recently published in BMJ found that suicide risk increased on New Year’s Day in most countries, while the risk varied by country on Christmas.

Experts published a swath of new research this year about the youth mental health crisis in the United States, which U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, has called an emergency.

In the United States, mass violence has slightly increased, accounting for 1% of homicides in 2023 vs. 0.2% from 2000 to 2016, according to a report by the Medical Director Institute of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.

The American Psychological Association released its first ever set of recommendations regarding healthy video consumption by teenagers, who have greater access to a larger volume of video content than ever before, according to the report.

An overall decline in population health has resulted in the U.S. falling behind in life expectancy gains compared with those of other high-income countries, particularly the U.K., findings from two new reports suggested.

Cognitive behavioral therapy delivered via telehealth using remote video reduced suicide attempts and suicidal ideation among high-risk adults, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial.

Two FDA committees overwhelmingly voted to strike down monitoring requirements under a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or REMS, program for clozapine, a medication for individuals with treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Suicide rates for individuals diagnosed with cancer increased over the past 2 decades, according to results of a retrospective study.