North America

New York City Police say new evidence in that townhouse explosion on the Upper East Side confirms a suicide attempt by the doctor who owned the owned the building. - [Read more]

Reports "a study published in the American Journal of Public Health reports a decline in suicide rates from 1970 to 2002." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports "the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is a little upset with General Motors over the automaker's Super Bowl XLI spot in which a GM factory robot, obsessed with quality, dreams it loses its job, becomes depressed and jumps off a bridge." - [Read more]

Reports "ive newly funded studies will soon delve into one of medicine's knottier questions: Do antidepressants, particularly the new and popular SSRIs, cause suicidal thoughts and behaviors?" Read for details. - [Read more]

The MarinIJ.com reports that "the Golden Gate Bridge Board of Directors voted 17-1 to award a $1.8 million contract to Oakland-based DMJM Harris Inc. for preliminary work on a suicide barrier." - [Read more]

Reports that "women with breast implants and those who've had plastic surgeries have lower rates of cancer than the general population, but higher rates of suicide, says a recent Canadian study." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports "General Motors relented Friday and agreed to re-edit a Super Bowl ad that offended suicide prevention groups." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports "the nation’s largest provider of corrections management services to federal, state and local governments announced that it has implemented a new, more comprehensive suicide prevention program at each of the company’s 64 prisons and jails nati - [Read more]

"Suicide, grief and the transgender experience will be the focus of a series of events at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship" in Corvallis, Oregon. - [Read more]

Reports that "while the rate of suicide among adolescents is declining in developed countries, it remains static in Canada, according to research presented in a poster here at the 56th Annual Conference of the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA)." - [Read more]

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) brings its national Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk to San Francisco for the first time on July 22 and 23. The 18-mile fundraising walk benefits AFSP. - [Read more]

Un estudio municipal en el 2005 indicó que entre las jóvenes, las adolescentes hispanas tienen el mayor nivel de lo que se denomina tristeza persistente. Esta persistencia se ha convertido en uno de los más altos niveles de intentos de suicidio. - [Read more]

Reports "a city survey in 2005 showed that among girls, Hispanics teenagers have the highest prevalence of what is called persistent sadness. That prevalence has translated into high rates of suicide attempts." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports that "in a 2005 survey conducted by the American College Health Association, more than half of the nation's 17.6 million college students reported being so depressed that they could not function; and 1 in 10 students- 1,760,000 - reported they had - [Read more]

Reports " that there appears to be a growing consensus among mental health experts that as long as it is done responsibly, media reporting of suicides will probably not spur more and might even prevent some - although there remains a significant and stron - [Read more]

Suicide prevention hotline finds that "days and weeks after the holidays that the hotline gets more calls, perhaps because of the variety of stresses created by the holidays." - [Read more]

Reports that "in 2003, about 31,500 Americans committed suicide, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Roughly 17 percent of that number, or 5,300, were seniors, which means nearly 15 older Americans kill themselves each day." - [Read more]

Learn about this Stroudsburg, PA, event that was held as a part of World Suicide Prevention Day in 2006. - [Read more]

Reveals Stephanie Casciotta is the first-place winner in the recent logo contest sponsored by the Monroe County Suicide Prevention Task Force. - [Read more]

Details the official launch of Suicide Prevention Help and the development of a Web directory of easy-to-find suicide prevention resources. - [Read more]

Reports that "in a 3-year study of 188 high school students, researchers found that those with poor reading abilities were nearly four times more likely than average readers to think about or attempt suicide." - [Read more]

Reports "at least 34 people committed suicide by jumping off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge last year, the Marin County Coroner's office have said." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports "for its work in suicide prevention, Somerville Cares About Prevention (SCAP) was selected to receive a Leadership Award from the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention for its Suicide and Mental Health Prevention Taskforce." - [Read more]

Star-Tribune reports that "Wyoming has the highest per capita suicide rate in the country, and members of the Natrona County Task Force for Suicide Prevention want to bring attention to this serious problem this month. - [Read more]

Read this news item by Samantha Yale of the Santa Maria Times. - [Read more]

St. Petersburg Times reports that a superintendent wanted a teacher fired for trying to kill herself at school, but others show sympathy. Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports "suicide, the 11th-leading cause of death in the United States, is not as rare as many think, says a U.S. professor of psychology." - [Read more]

Reveals "a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found an 18% increase in suicides from 2003 to 2004, the most recent data taken on the issue." - [Read more]