A very worrying factor concerning Tamiflu:- Suicides?

It’s been a very relevant factor that drugs have been released on to the world market place that have really bad side effects. At present one such drug is being actively advertised by some governments and...

Canadian Military will track suicides to include former soldiers

Canada's National Defence Headquarters is changing the way it tracks suicides.  In future. the statistics will include those soldiers that are no longer on active duty. According to the Toronto Star the...

'Expect Suicides' With Recession Still Around

The economic downturn has already claimed a lot of financial institutions, top companies, millions of jobs but it is not done yet. The recession is expected to cause increase in deaths primarily by the means of...

US Army Suicide Rate at 30 Year High, Nearing Vietnam Era Levels

The suicide rate among US Army troops is at a 30 year high according to senior officials with the Army command.  Citing "tremendous and unprecedented stress" due to long tours of duty in countries like...

Britain records 18% fall in gun deaths

Good news on the violent crime front as gun deaths fall in Britain by 18%. Concerns are raised by The Gun Control Network over the fact that although there has been a fall a disproportionate amount of deaths were...

Suicides in Japan certain to top 30,000 for 10th straight year

" TOKYO — The number of people who committed suicide in Japan in 2007 is certain to have topped the 30,000 mark for the 10th straight year despite a recovery in the Japanese economy, a Kyodo News tally based on...

No let up in India farm suicides

Despite Indian government's special package to millions of debt ridden farmer, Incidence of suicide among Indian farmers has continued to rise. " The rate of farmer suicides in India's Maharashtra...

U.S. Post-War Suicides Could Exceed Combat Deaths

In thinking ahead a few years, this becomes a very powerful and troubling assertion. Could post-war suicides really surpass the number of U.S. soldiers killed during the war in Iraq? "At the American Psychiatric...

Suicides up after weight-loss surgery

Among people who have undergone so-called bariatric surgery for obesity, death rates are higher than seen among other people of the same age, new research shows. In particular, deaths due to suicide and coronary...

600 deaths in custody in England and Wales

Some of the 600 deaths in custody could be prevented"There were around 600 deaths in custody in England and Wales last year, according to a report published today. The figure, calculated by the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody, covers deaths in prisons, police cells,...

News, Comment and Conversation

Pharmalot is a home for news and debate about the pharmaceutical industry. Ed Silverman, a veteran journalist for The Star-Ledger of New Jersey runs the show.

Teen harm Concern Over Web List

"Police and social workers investigating teenage suicides have visited homes in County Armagh after material was published on the internet. BBC News understands the names of some people who have taken their own lives are included on a list. In a statement, police and Southern...

Inalienable rights

At First Things today, Wesley J. Smith looks at the progress of the so-called 'assisted suicide' movement in the U.S., in large part through the lens of Neil M. Gorsuch's The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, published last year.  I would point out that Mr...

More babies born. More crime. More suicides.

Now scientists try to explain why we're all... moonstruck. - VICTORIA MOORE UK Daily Mail Thursday, January 25, 2007  - The poet Robert Graves was so in thrall to the mystical power of the Moon that he would sometimes be an...

Widows' suicides divide India along cultural lines

While sati cases remain rare , and India normally only has one every year or so, recent months have seen a surge: At least three widows have died on their husband's pyres since August, and another was stopped from...

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