The Urge to End It All - In a comprehensive article about suicide in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, writer Scott Anderson examines the relationship between impulsivity and suicide.

Helping Military Families Help Themselves - Project FOCUS, a program developed at UCLA, has been put in place on nine military bases to work with families of deployed soldiers and teach them ways to deal with the stresses that can come during conflict.

Minimum Drinking Age of 21 Cuts Road Deaths - Researchers from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation have concluded that changes to alcohol regulation in the 1980's led to an 11 percent decline in the number of drunk teenage driving fatalities. 

Curbing Kids' Risk-Taking Behaviors - An intervention designed by University of Michigan scientists takes a message of safety to parents and kids in hospital emergency rooms in the hopes of reducing the behaviors that led to the families' visits.