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]

Browse to read this news item from Canada's The London Free Press. - [Read more]

Join Together reports that "depressed individuals who also use alcohol or other drugs are more likely to attempt suicide than those who are depressed but don't drink or use illicit drugs, according to new research from the Substance Abuse and Mental Healt - [Read more]

Article reports that "researchers from the University of South Carolina revealed that the suicide rates among younger and older Americans have been declining since the early 1990s, but, they do not have any reason for supporting their findings." - [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]

Reports "the state would launch a major, coordinated effort to prevent suicides — such as those occurring with greater frequency as people leap off the Golden Gate Bridge — under a bill introduced Wednesday by a Bay Area lawmaker." - [Read more]

Reports that "less than a year after Howard County proposed measures to prevent suicides in its jail, the county is investigating the third inmate hanging and fourth death in 18 months." - [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 "Two inmates in the the state prison system committed suicide during a two-hour period ending just after midnight." - [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]

Montreal police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide after finding two bodies in an apartment. - [Read more]

Browse to become familiar with this HalifaxLive.com news item release in conjunction with the World Suicide Prevention Day. - [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 a "third of people who commit suicide in the United States would test positive for alcohol, while many are on drugs, a study suggests." Read for details. - [Read more]

Reports that "suicide rates among youth are lowest in areas of the U.S. where prescriptions for a certain class of antidepressants are highest, researchers found after regulators warned of suicidal thoughts in young people on SSRIs." - [Read more]

Reports that "the problem of suicide needs to garner more media attention to stop the 'out-of-sight and out-of-mind epidemic' that is decimating many aboriginal communities, particularly northern ones, Ontario's lieutenant-governor has warned." - [Read more]

Reports that "unregulated internet gambling is simply adding to the growing problem of addiction, delegates attending the Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention conference in Toronto were told." - [Read more]

Reports that "an Iqaluit researcher is looking to the circumpolar world for answers to the high rate of suicide among Nunavut's Inuit." - [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]

Reports "the SE Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network is hosting a pilot program aimed at responding to suicides in the southeastern Tennessee counties of Hamilton, Bradley, Polk, Meigs, McMinn, Rhea, Bledsoe, Sequatchie, Grundy, Marion." - [Read more]

Dave Hoekstra reports of the film "The Bridge," a documentary about people committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, raising ethical quastions about the role of the filmmaker. - [Read more]

Reports that "OSU has been awarded two federal grants, totaling nearly $1.5 million over the next three years, to prevent students who are college-age or younger from dying senselessly." - [Read more]

Bev Cobain, a registered nurse with experience in psychiatric and mental health nursing and a nationally known educator, gave a presentation at Lake Superior State University to students and members of the community on teen depression and suicide. - [Read more]

Reports "the suicide rate among soldiers in Iraq remained high in 2006 and could reach record levels for the war, with 22 deaths ruled as self-inflicted and more than a dozen other cases still under review, according to Department of Defense records." - [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]

Read this blog created to encourage discussion among crisis centers within the Lifeline network and other members of the suicide prevention community. - [Read more]

Reports "stung by an epidemic of suicide among its officers, the California Highway Patrol is instituting a prevention and awareness program similar to those long used successfully by law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles and elsewhere." - [Read more]

Reports on Carol Lynn Pearson's newest drama, "Facing East," the setting is a cemetery and how somewhere along the Wasatch Front, where a mother and father are grieving at the burial site of their gay son who has committed suicide." - [Read more]