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Leo Sher, M.D. The Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently published the 2021 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (1). This report provides information from 2001 through 2019, while recent prior reports included data from 2005 forward. Also, this report includes the most current data and […]

Leo Sher, M.D. A virtual meeting of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force on Men’s Mental Health was held earlier today. Prof. Dr. Zoltan Rihmer (Hungary), Prof. Dr. Timothy Rice (USA), Prof. Dr. Nestor Szerman (Spain), Prof. Dr. Jussi Jokinen (Sweden), Prof. Dr. Dan Rujescu (Austria), Prof. Dr. Peter Falkai […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Provisional information regarding the leading causes of death in the United States has been released by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (1,2). Provisional estimates indicate a 17.7% increase in the number of deaths in 2020 (the increase in the age-adjusted rate was 15.9%) compared with 2019, with increases in many […]

Leo Sher, M.D. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has published a Position Statement on Use of the Terms Client and Provider (1). The Position Statement was approved by the APA Assembly in November 2020 and by the APA Board of Trustees in December 2020. The APA states that the terms “provider” and “client” have been […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published the January 31, 2021 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 28,433 articles published since 2010. The current database of articles was compiled on January 31, 2021. The Expertscape version number is ua31f1807. According to Expertscape, […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published a December 2020 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 27,743 articles published since 2010. The current database of articles was compiled on Friday, December 4, 2020. According to Expertscape, the 20 leading world experts on […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Yesterday, on October 17, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed into law a bill titled the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 that will make 9-8-8 the universal telephone number to reach the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in the United States starting in 2022 (1,2). The National […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published a September 2020 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 26,778 articles published since 2010. According to Expertscape, the 20 leading world experts on suicide are: Maurizio Pompili (Italy) – top 0.0016% of published authors worldwide […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published a July 2020 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 26,177 articles published since 2010. According to Expertscape, the 20 leading world experts on suicide are: Maurizio Pompili (Italy) – top 0.0016% of published authors worldwide […]

Leo Sher, M.D. The 18th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (18th ESSSB) was originally scheduled to be held in Rome, Italy, on September 1-4, 2020. The organizing committee initially planned to postpone the Congress to spring 2021. A few days ago, the Congress organizers announced that the Rome ESSSB will be held in […]