CHICAGO (Reuters) - A troubling one-year spike in youth suicides in the United States reported last year is not a fluke and should be taken seriously, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
They analyzed the most recent youth suicide data and found that while rates fell about 5 percent in 2005 after a large increase in 2004, they still were far higher than would have been expected based on historical trends.
Last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an 18 percent increase in suicide rates for Americans under age 19 in 2004, reversing more than a decade of declines....