The approach to cases of gender dysphoria or incongruence, in which the individual does not identify with his or her biological sex, has promoted various treatment strategies. Predominantly those that resort to pharmacological therapies – hormonal blocking and transition – [...]
The 024, the new telephone that the Spanish Ministry of Health has launched to serve people with suicidal ideation or close to them, has registered around a thousand calls on its first day of operation, last Tuesday, May 10. The [...]
Vermont just passed a law legalizing remote prescription of assisted suicide drugs. The new rule also removes the previous requirement that the doctor has examined the patient. In this way, the doctor will never have to meet the patient in [...]
David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford (England), recently published an article on euthanasia, assisted suicide and suicide rates in Europe in the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health (JEMH). After compiling a record of non-assisted suicide [...]
Before addressing the continuous increase of loneliness in Britain and its medical and ethical effects, we give specialists’ opinions of what is happening in the United State in the COVID-19 era (read HERE). In this respect, an article published in [...]
Recent “WHO guidance” on suicide incidence during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide (June 17, 2021) states that each year, more people die as a result of suicide than from HIV, malaria, breast cancer, war and homicide. It is also said that [...]
For the third annual observance of National Physician Suicide Awareness Day on Sept. 17, the President of the American Medical Association published an article addressed to their associated entitled Now’s the time to have a difficult talk about physician suicide. [...]
Teen suicide prevention in the US has hopeful news In 2018, there were more than 48,000 suicides in the United States, particularly among adolescents. In fact, suicide was the second leading cause of death in this age group after unintentional [...]
Suicide continues to be a devastating public health problem in the United States. The last figures show that this epidemic is not controlled in the country. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this issue is one of the leading [...]
Along with the objective, medical and ethical problems posed by euthanasia and assisted suicide, no less controversial are, those that arise in relation to language engineering [the semantic manipulation of the terminology] used around them. In our view, however, two [...]
Around 1 million people die by suicide annually. Globally, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death for all ages and the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15–29 years. Indeed, in a paper published in Molecular [...]
Suicide is a devastating public health problem. However, current figures show that numbers are declining, having gone from 1 million suicides per year worldwide to 800,000 in recent decades, an annual reduction of less than 1% by year, evidence for [...]
