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• School-wide prevention program lowers teen suicide risk
• Staying Home & Watching TV May Reduce Flu Spread
• For Liberal Arts Colleges, Enrolling Minority Students Still a Challenge

School-wide prevention program lowers teen suicide risk Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:39 AM PST By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) - After a school-based prevention program, European teenagers were about half as likely to attempt suicide or to feel suicidal, a new study shows. Danuta Wasserman, a professor of psychiatry at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said the program was likely successful because students "felt that the power of mastering their feelings, coping with stress and choosing solutions was in their hands and not decided or forced by adults." Suicide is the third leading cause of death between the ages of 10 and 24, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Suicide attempts are even more common, with some research suggesting that 4 to 8 percent of high school students try to kill themselves each year, the CDC says. Those most at risk have a history of suicide attempts, mental illness or substance abuse, or a family history of mental illness and access to lethal methods.

Staying Home & Watching TV May Reduce Flu Spread Posted: 23 Jan 2015 07:19 AM PST Staying at home and watching TV during a flu epidemic may actually reduce the spread of the disease, according to a new study of the 2009 "swine flu" epidemic. Researchers analyzed the television-viewing habits of people in central Mexico during spring 2009, when that year's H1N1 flu epidemic began. At that time, officials in Mexico City implemented measures to reduce people's contact with one another (a public health strategy called "social distancing"). They closed public schools and canceled large public events.

For Liberal Arts Colleges, Enrolling Minority Students Still a Challenge Posted: 23 Jan 2015 06:30 AM PST It had the highest percentage of black freshmen among 24 of the most competitive liberal arts schools. "At 14 of the 23 high-ranking liberals arts colleges for which we have data, the Black acceptance rate was lower than the rate for all students," the report states. In a similar report on leading research universities, which includes Duke University and Brown University, 12 of the 17 top-ranked schools that submitted data had higher acceptance rates for African-American students than for all students. A number of historically black colleges are liberal arts institutions, such as Spelman College and Dillard University, but none were included as top-ranked schools in the report on liberal arts schools.

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