Teen suicide rates up, no one knows exactly why:
Sept. 7, 2007 - A report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that suicide rates for 10- to 24-year-olds rose 8 percent between 2003 and 2004, the most recent year for which data exists. It's the largest uptick researchers have seen in 15 years, and it marks the end of a steady decline in suicide rates between 1990 and 2003. The steepest increases occurred among 10- to 14-year-old girls, whose suicide rate rose more than 75 percent, followed by 15- to 19-year-old girls and 15- to 19-year-old boys, whose rates rose 32 percent and 9 percent, respectively. - Newsweek
HIV+ rates up in city with largest number of cases, no one knows exactly why:
New HIV diagnoses among MSM under age 30 have increased by 33 percent during the past six years, the agency reported today, from 374 in 2001 to almost 500 in 2006.
New diagnoses have doubled among MSM ages 13 to19, while declining by 22 percent among older MSM.
The under-30 group now accounts for 44% of all new diagnoses among MSM in New York City, up from 31% in 2001.-G-365 (h/t JMG)
NY City Health Departments ideas on how to respond, here.
[?Does this mean that routine, mandatory testing debate is back?]
