Marie Moore, 44, fatally shot and killed her 20-year-old son Mitchell, before taking her own life at a shooting range. According to reports, the Florida woman had a history of mental illness.

Many young vets are suffering from work-related distress and anxiety, according to a study in the Australian Veterinary Journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. Compared to the general population, young veterinarians experience a significantly higher level of general psychological distress, work-related anxiety and depression.

Paul Zolezzi, 30, committed suicide by hanging himself in a park behind the Brooklyn Museum Friday morning. He left a suicide note in an unusual place: his Facebook profile.

A 48-year old man shot and killed himself inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller's 'Hour of Power' Crystal Cathedral yesterday. Doing this as a volunteer explained the church's suicide-prevention program to a visiting group police say.

John Costelloe, a former Sopranos actor who played a role in a had a four-episode arc in 2006, has committed suicide at the age of 47.

The victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme now include a death. Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, a founder of the hedge fund Access International Advisors, which had invested with Madoff (pictured), was found dead on Tuesday in his Manhattan office.

Medical specialists at the nation's largest professional meeting on epilepsy discussed multiple questions and concerns they have about data presented by the FDA in support of its recent suicide alert on anticonvulsant drugs (AEDs) and the potential effect of the federal agency's analyses on clinical practice and the way AED drug trials are to be conducted in the future.

Every day 85 Americans die by suicide and hundreds of thousands more make attempts every year. The vast majority of recent studies on suicide have focused on identifying psychiatric risk factors.

Def Jam Executive Vice President Shakir Suicide has committed suicide. Not a lot of details on this story yet, but his wife discovered the body earlier today after Shakir shot himself. His body was found in his Atlanta apartment.

Youth in their late teens who live in poor neighbourhoods are four times more likely to attempt suicide than peers who live in more affluent neighbourhoods, according to a new study from Canada's Université de Montréal and Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center, as well as Tufts University in the U.S. The researchers also found youth from poor neighbourhoods are twice as likely to report suicidal thoughts.

Are genes destiny? Alternatively, are we simply the products of our environment? There is a growing sense that neither of these two possibilities fully captures the essence of the risk for psychiatric disorders.

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.