Suicide

Effect of Suicide

ETS2101

ETS2101 (dexanabinol) is a synthetic cannabinoid previously studied in trauma patients. Its anti-cancer potential was identified by e-Therapeutics’ network pharmacology platform. This revealed...

Peg Perego USA recalls strollers, cites strangulation risk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Peg Perego USA is voluntarily recalling about 223,000 baby strollers made between January 2004 and September 2007 because of the threat of entrapment and strangulation, the...

Suicide Can Be Contagious Among Teens

Suicide can be contagious, especially among teenagers, according to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). The research suggests that one person's suicide can influe...

Be alert to blind cord strangulation risk, parents of young children warned

Window blind cords pose a particular risk of accidental strangulation for young children, doctors have warned in Archives of Disease of Childhood.

Suicide 'Contagion' Seen in Teens (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- When a casual acquaintance or classmate commits suicide, it can serve as a flashpoint to increase both suicide ideation and suicide attempts within peer groups.

Rare risk of cardiac strangulation in children with epicardial pacemaker leads

Health Canada is advising health care professionals and the public of a rare potential risk of cardiac strangulation for children implanted with epicardial leads connected to a pacemaker.

Timing of Parental Suicide Influences Risk in Kids

Parental suicide is associated with a greater risk for suicide attempts in offspring, but this risk differs according to the child's age at the time of the suicide. Medscape Medical News

Teens exposed to schoolmate's death by suicide much more likely to consider or attempt suicide

Youth who had a schoolmate die by suicide are significantly more likely to consider or attempt suicide, according to a study in published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). This effect ca...

Breaking the silence of suicide

(Concordia University) Yehudit Silverman, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Creative Arts Therapies, has focused much of her career on the issue of suicide. Having written and direct...

Planned complex suicide: Self-strangulation and plaster ingestion.

The literature contains many case reports of planned and complex suicides, which combine various methods to commit suicide. In this article, we present the anomalous suicide of an adult male by strang...

Suicidal ligature strangulation utilizing cable ties: a report of three cases.

In 2006 the US National Vital Statistics Report recorded 33,300 suicides in the United States, of which hanging, strangulation and suffocation combined to account for 7,491 (22.5%) of the cases. Self...

Can MRI of the neck compete with clinical findings in assessing danger to life for survivors of manual strangulation? A statistical analysis.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to examine the clinical forensic findings of strangulation according to their ability to differentiate between life-threatening and non-life-threatening strangulati...

Method of attempted suicide as predictor of subsequent successful suicide: national long term cohort study.

OBJECTIVE: To study the association between method of attempted suicide and risk of subsequent successful suicide. DESIGN: Cohort study with follow-up for 21-31 years. SETTING: Swedish national regist...

Cardiac strangulation from epicardial pacemaker: early recognition and prevention.

Cardiac strangulation from epicardial pacemaker leads is a rare event that can be difficult to recognise and can cause serious complications such as cardiac failure or death. We describe a 3-year-old...