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Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have ...





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Suicide bombers' motivations are studied

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 21, 2007 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A British scientist says the view that suicide bombers are brainwashed, religious fanatics vulnerable through poverty and youth is not accurate.


Spike in suicide calls due to economy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Economic woes are weighing heavily on some Americans - so much so that the federal government is boosting financial support for suicide prevention centers around the nation.


Elderly suicide risk after previous attempts varies by sex

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In older age groups, repeated suicide attempts constitute an increased risk for completed suicide in depressed women, while severe attempts constitute an increased risk for depressed men. Researchers writing in the open access ...


Study: 8 million Americans consider suicide

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study.


Sedatives may increase suicide risk in older patients

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sleeping tablets have been associated with a four-fold increase in suicide risk in the elderly. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Geriatrics have shown that, even after adjusting for the presence of psychi ...


Post-traumatic stress disorder primary suicide risk factor for veterans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

August 25, 2009—Researchers working with Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have found that post-traumatic stress disorder, the current most common mental disorder among veterans returning from service in the Middle East, ...


Young adults with post-traumatic stress disorder may be more likely to attempt suicide

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—but not exposure to traumatic events without the development of PTSD—may be associated with subsequent attempted suicide in young adults, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of ...


The suicide tourist trap

The suicide tourist trap

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 7

The international media report that citizens from across the world are travelling, or seeking to travel, to Switzerland, where they hope to be helped to die. But this 'suicide tourism' presents distinctive ...


Collective religious rituals, not religious devotion, spur support for suicide attacks

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Jeremy Ginges and Ian Hansen from the New School for Social Research along with psychologist Ara Norenzayan from t ...


Mental health problems in childhood may predict later suicide attempts in males

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most males who commit suicide or need hospital care for suicide attempts during their teen or early adult years appear to have high levels of psychiatric problems at age 8, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of ...



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