Drawing on therapy developed to save soldiers, an app aims to prevent suicide in those at highest risk

(By Mario Aguilar for STAT)

It’s a problem so complex, so fraught with stigma and treatment complications, that innovation has crept forward slowly even as a crisis escalates: suicide prevention.

But for several years, a small New Haven, Conn.-based startup has quietly been building technology to move the needle on suicide rates among the people at highest risk: those with a history of attempts or who have suicidal thoughts and have expressed a strong desire to die. Continue reading here…

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