WASHINGTON  - Suicides in the US military rose to a record level last year, with 349 troops taking their lives, despite concerted efforts to stem the trend, officials said. The number of suicides was higher than the death toll from combat in 2012 in Afghanistan, where 310 American troops ...

52 Marines killed themselves last year, compared with 42 the previous year. The corps wants Marines to rescue other Marines from the edge, just as they would come to their aid in combat. The young Marine had just gotten a Dear John letter from a woman he had described as "my everything." Days ...

An increase in prescriptions for antidepressants has been accompanied by a decrease in suicides among older people, and there are good reasons to believe the association is cause and effect. It's not so much the antidepressants themselves, but the indication that family doctors are paying more ...

The US Army have said that 115 soldiers on active duty committed suicide in 2007, the most in one year since the service began keeping records in 1980. Nearly a thousand soldiers attempted suicide. The spike came in a year that saw the highest US casualties in Iraq and increased levels of violence ...