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Katz and colleagues’ study is methodologically superior to comparable work [1]. For example, in calculating the relative risk of suicide in Manitoba before and after the June 2004 Health Canada warning about the safety of antidepressants, the authors exercise appropriate statistical caution, recognising that the numbers are small and subject to random fluctuation. Nevertheless there is evidence of bias in their paper....
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Big Thank You to Laurence Y. Katz, MD, Anita L. Kozyrskyj, PhD, Heather J. Prior, MSc, Murray W. Enns, MD, Brian J. Cox, PhD and Jitender Sareen, MD for the research and report.
From personal experience what I refer to as the "Suicidal State", comprises a number of psychic characteristics the most important of which is Suicide Fatalism.
Suicide Fatalism includes thinking that concludes all help avenues...
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Dr Stewart’s comments and the article by Gilbody and colleagues in the April 8, 2008 issue of the CMAJ emphasized the enormous burden of illness and high prevalence of depression in Canadian society.
I would like to remind physicians that the majority of adult patients with Major Depressive Disoredr experienced the onset of the disorder in adolescence. In addition, suicide the second leading cause of death in...
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