Category: Mental health

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Anchor lead: Girls are catching up with boys when it comes to suicide, Elizabeth Tracey reports Among those 10 to 14 years of age, girls are starting to close the gap with boys when it comes to completed suicide, the …

June 7, 2019 – Youth Suicide Read more »

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Anchor lead: Spring is the season for suicides, Elizabeth Tracey reports Suicides in the US have risen by 30% in the last 15 years, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal. Adam Kaplin, a …

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Anchor lead: What is behind high rates of suicide among nurses? Elizabeth Tracey reports Suicide among health care workers is known to happen more often than in the general population, with nurses 4 times more likely to commit suicide than …

May 27, 2019 – Nurse Suicide Read more »

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Anchor lead: Can a novel psychedelic drug have broader clinical use than more common agents? Elizabeth Tracey reports Psilocybin and other drugs of this type are increasingly being found useful clinically, helping alleviate anxiety for end stage cancer patients or …

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Anchor lead: FDA approval of a new treatment for depression has some applauding, Elizabeth Tracey reports Esketamine is the name of a new drug given by nasal spray to help alleviate depression, recently approved by the FDA. Atsushi Kamiya, a …

April 23, 2019 – Esketamine Read more »