When Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court launched in 2023, his administration projected the program could help steer up to 12,000 ...

The family of a mental health patient who killed herself after being allowed to go home for Christmas was not aware of her suicide attempt a week previously.

From sleeping on staircases and bare floors to battling mosquitoes, rain, and exhaustion, relatives of patients admitted to teaching hospitals across the country are enduring harsh realities as they ...

In the last shutdown in 2018, mental health took a hit among furloughed federal workers. A Weber State University study in Utah found 72% of surveyed workers had high anxiety or stress during the ...

A federal judge blocked Colorado on Thursday from implementing a requirement that social media companies notify users younger than 18 of the effects to their mental and physical health from using the ...

INDIANAPOLIS— The recent violence in downtown Indianapolis has some state leaders calling for the National Guard to patrol ...

The study found the mentally ill are swept up by low-level criminal offenses and kept in state hospitals too long, confirming ...

But efforts to replace the old facility — a cramped, aging building from the 1970s that was planned by an architect who designed prisons — appear to have hit a roadblock. An architectural firm hired ...

During my term in the Montana Legislature, I served on the Judiciary and Human Services Committees, where we often heard testimony about the Forensic Mental Health Facility in Galen. I was alarmed to ...

Luke Bell was a promising country singer whose struggle with mental illness, and a lack of U.S. healthcare options, led to ...

Seven lawsuits filed in California state courts accuse ChatGPT of emotional manipulation and of acting as a “suicide coach” ...

Applicants for immigrant visas to the U.S. could be rejected if they have certain medical conditions under a new State Department directive, the agency confirmed. The policy would allow officers ...