One in four terminally ill patients in the State of Oregon who opt for physician assisted suicide have clinical depression and the Death with Dignity Act may not be adequately protecting them, concludes a study published on bmj.com today.

Suicide: the very word brings images of untimely death and grief - all the more painful for the children of parental suicide who are left to cope growing up without a mother or father and must face adult challenges without a guiding hand.

Poor sleep quality and insomnia are significantly associated with suicidal symptoms among college undergraduates, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).

Jack Kevorkian is the most ardent advocate of physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The assisted-suicide doctor puts his viewpoints into practice. He came to be well-known as Dr. Death. The US pathologist helped 130 people to end their lives. He connected his patients to the machine he had invented himself.

A study examining suicide rates and pre-suicide clinical symptoms in people from different ethnic groups, has found that rates of suicide vary between ethnic groups with young black men aged 13 to 24 at highest risk.

Swedish doctors are much more sceptical to Euthanasia than many of their colleagues around the world, according to a new study.

Risk factors for suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts are consistent across countries, and include having a mental disorder and being female, younger, less educated, and unmarried.

By Anastasia Tomazhenkova: At least seven teenagers in Wales, have apparently committed suicide in the past year in suspected copycat acts. Reporters have focussed on the possibility the teens may have used the Internet to research and discuss suicide.

Short male babies run more than double the risk of a violent suicide attempt as an adult, suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

It’s a topic people often don’t want to talk about, but suicide is a serious issue that needs serious attention.

Approximately 1 percent of Pennsylvania residents who underwent bariatric surgery between 1995 and 2004 died within one year of the surgery and nearly 6 percent died within five years, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Surgery, a theme issue on bariatric surgery.

There is no evidence that legalised physician assisted suicide, results in disproportionate numbers of vulnerable people having their lives ended prematurely by doctors, finds research in the Journal of Medical Ethics .