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Leo Sher, M.D. A large suicidology conference entitled “The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (ESSSB20)” took place on August 28-31, 2024, in the “Auditorium Della Tecnica” Convention Center in Rome, Italy. Prof. Dr. Marco Sarchiapone (Italy) was the President of the ESSSB20. The ESSSB20 Scientific Committee consisted of scholars from different countries […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Today the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to American scientists Victor Ambros, Ph.D. and Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D. for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The Nobel committee described their research as a “groundbreaking discovery [that] revealed a […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On July 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released a Report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives entitled, “Report on Incidence of Military Suicides by Military Job Code” (1-3). This report responds to section 599 of the James M. Inhofe National […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Three days ago, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released provisional data on suicide rates in the U.S. in 2022 (1). More people died by suicide in the U.S. in 2022 than any other year on record. Overall, 49,449 Americans (39,255 men and 10,194 women) died by suicide in 2022, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A U.S. National Vital Statistics System report, “Suicide mortality in the United States, 2001-2021” was published in April 2023 (1). This report updates previous data by presenting final suicide rates from 2001 through 2021 by sex and age as well as rates by race and Hispanic origin for 2020 and 2021. Data […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published the January 9, 2023, list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 29,387 articles published since 2012. The current database of articles was compiled on January 9, 2023. The Expertscape version number is wa09s4347. According to Expertscape, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Research.com has just published a list of the best universities in the world (1). According to Research.com, universities from the USA dominate the world ranking with 23.4% of all leading institutions being based in the USA. Harvard University hosts the greatest number of leading scientists in the world, 2113 scholars. According to […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Earlier today, I received the following e-mail from Dr. Robert G. Stern, Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in New Jersey: Dear Colleague,I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to let you know about our new ACGME accredited Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The 2022 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report was released on September 19, 2022 (1). It shows that Veteran suicides decreased in 2020 for the second year in a row. Fewer Veterans died by suicide in 2020 than in any year since 2006. In 2020, there were 6,146 Veteran suicide deaths, which […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A few days ago, Reuters published an article, “Long COVID’s link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis” (1). The authors discuss a possible relation between long COVID and suicide which is an important and probably, underappreciated issue (1,2). The authors report that globally, nearly 150 million people are estimated to have […]
