Increase In Youth Suicide Rate Following Decade Long Decline May Reflect Emerging Health Crisis

A sudden and dramatic increase in pediatric suicides may reflect an emerging trend rather than a single-year anomaly. That's the conclusion of new suicide research, conducted at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and published in the September 3rd issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which looked at pediatric suicide trends over a 10-year period. Following a decade of steady decline, the suicide rate among U.S....