CHICAGO (AP) - There's a new effort to keep doctors from taking their own lives. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has launched an educational campaign to encourage troubled doctors to get help. An estimated 300 to 400 American physicians kill themselves...
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WASHINGTON, July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Veterans and other residents of metropolitan Washington, D.C., have begun seeing outreach information on buses and inside subway cars about the suicide prevention hotline of the...
By STEPHEN GAY, Guardian Staff Reporter, stephen@nasguard.com Murder accused Asa Bethel, who was found dead hanging from a shower at Her Majesty's Prison, should not have been left alone, former prison Superintendent Edwin...
This is an extremely distressing story: a woman faxes a suicide note to her mortgage servicer on the day the foreclosure sale is scheduled, and is dead by the time the police arrive. Distressing for anyone with what I take to...
Since a severely mentally ill student went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech last year, killing 32 people before turning a gun on himself, Congress and several states have worked to tighten rules on who can legally purchase...