A systematic review of 45 studies found that physicians perceive one in six patient visits in non-psychiatric clinics as ...

Kim Kovol, commissioner of the state Department of Family and Community Services, wrote a Nov. 18 opinion piece praising the staff at the state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute. I also commend the API ...

WMCHealth, the largest hospital system in the Hudson Valley, routinely discharged vulnerable mental health patients without adequate evaluation or stabilization measures and improperly kept inpatient ...

Sen. Matt Claman introduced Senate Bill 231 last legislative session. If passed, some adolescents in locked psychiatric facilities would have better access to family. The mistake with the bill: It ...

The situation wasn't unusual for Stanford, Calif., emergency room physician Suzanne Lippert: The patient before her was a woman in her 60s suffering from severe depression, who said she had a plan to ...