 Suicide Information - October 7, 2008
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A retired doctor takes her own life with the help of doctors at a Swiss clinic. Dr. Anne Turner had a progressive, incurable degenerative disease known as supranuclear palsy, the same disease that afflicted late comedian Dudley Moore |
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Florida State University Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology Thomas Joiner has spent most of his career trying to uncover why nearly a million people around the world kill themselves |
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A new study suggests that men who weigh more early adulthood may have a lower risk of suicide when they are older. A team from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden analyzed data from the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register, the Population and Housing Censuses, and the Cause of Death Register on 1,299,177 men |
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It its first global study of the issue, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports on Thursday that one in six women worldwide is a victim of domestic violence. The WHO says many of those battered do not report the crime, with some of them being victimized while pregnant, reports Reuters |
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It its first global study of the issue, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports on Thursday that one in six women worldwide is a victim of domestic violence. The WHO says many of those battered do not report the crime, with some of them being victimized while pregnant, reports Reuters |
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