Suicide

Anxiety Screening Adults

Most adults should receive routine anxiety screenings, U.S. task force says

How easy access to guns at home contributes to America's youth suicide problem

Gun youth suicide

New suicide prevention 'lifeline' aims to increase access to mental health professionals

Lifeline 988

Runner treks 370 miles across Pennsylvania to raise money for LGBTQ+ youth mental health

Trevor Project Runner

Pennsylvania tip line created to mitigate school violence finds increase in student mental health issues

AG Report Students

Is social media harmful to teens' mental health? Not necessarily, study finds

Social Media Mental Health

Gun ownership is increasing among Black people in the U.S. Is it driving up Black suicide rates?

Gun Sales Suicide

Conversion therapy increases LGBTQ people's risk of depression, suicide, study finds

Conversion Therapy LGBTQ

LGBTQ youth with eating disorders have increased risk of suicide, study finds

LGBTQ Study Trevor Project

The youth mental health crisis needs immediate action, CHOP doctor tells Congress

Children's Mental Health Crisis

Ketamine use for depression remains experimental, but it may reduce suicidal thoughts

Ketamine Depression Treatment

Suicides by drug overdose increasing among young people, seniors

Suicide by drug overdose

The mental health of American children is at a crisis point, pediatric groups say

Mental Health Children

Pottstown man killed wife, self in murder-suicide, investigators say

Pottstown Police Shooting

Penn Medicine to use $14 million grant to reduce disparities in suicide prevention

Penn Medicine grant

Fear a loved one is having suicidal thoughts? Here's how to talk about it

Suicide Prevention Talk

People living with HIV have a higher suicide risk, even with advancements in treatment

Suicide risk and HIV

SEPTA to install steel barriers at Somerset Station to prevent deadly falls

SEPTA Somerset Station

CHOP to provide mental health services to Girard College students

Girard College Philly

Personalized screenings may help detect teens at risk of suicide, researchers say

Teen Suicide Risk

Suicide risk five times higher among people with ADHD, study finds

ADHD suicide risk

New wellness app, VetTriage, aims to boost veterans' health through resiliency

Veterans Wellness App

For colleges, online mental health services are a 'silver lining' of COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19 Mental Health Services

Many Generation Zers, millennials having suicidal thoughts amid pandemic

Suicidal thoughts COVID-19 pandemic

Suicide-related incidents involving OTC painkillers are surging, study finds

OTC drugs suicide

Pennsylvania launches violence data dashboard to track statewide trends

Pennsylvania Violence Dashboard

Children's Health

Bullying a common precursor before LGBTQ youth suicides, Yale study finds

LGBTQ youth bullying

Even teens with mild mental distress have increased suicide risk, study finds

Teens at risk of suicide

Social distancing efforts could spur suicides as COVID-19 crisis plays out

Suicide social distancing

Edgar Allan Poe battled depression but it's unlikely that he killed himself

Edgar Allan Poe suicide depression

Snapchat launches new mental health tool to help users affected by cyberbullying, depression

Snapchat Mental Health depression

More teens are coming out as LGBTQ, but suicide attempts remain high

LGBTQ Teens Attempted Suicide

National suicide prevention hotline getting 3-digit number, 988

988 - suicide hotline number

Trend continues of Americans dying younger, study shows

Study links blood pressure medication to suicide risk, but some health experts are skeptical

blood pressure medication suicide

More must be done to reduce suicide, World Health Organization says

Suicide Rates World Health Organization

New Jersey launches nation's first state program to prevent police officer suicide

Police rain

Report: Anonymous tips from Pennsylvania students overwhelmingly concern mental health issues

Classroom_Unsplash

New Jersey's aid in dying law takes effect Thursday

Carroll - Pills Medication Prescription Drugs Stock

In secret meeting, Philly-area seniors discuss ‘rational suicide’

Nursing_Home 06272019

Study: Overdose, suicide among top causes of death for new moms

suicide overdose new moms

Philadelphia deputy sheriff, LGBTQ liaison Dante Austin found dead in office Friday morning

Dante Austin death LGBTQ

Children's Health

Teen suicides increased after Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' premiered, two studies say

'13 Reasons Why' and increase in suicide

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