An estimated 32% of adults in Logan County, West Virginia, have been diagnosed with depression — the highest rate in the United States and nearly double the national rate.
Naming suicide in obits was once taboo. Changing that can help loved ones grieve.
While it was once unheard-of to mention suicide as a cause of death in news obituaries and paid death notices, that has been changing, especially in the past 10 years.
Parents see own health spiral as their kids’ mental illnesses worsen
Families say Success Academy and other publicly funded but privately run schools are allowed to punish and discriminate against students by calling in emergency services.
State lawmakers eye forced treatment to address overlap in homelessness and mental illness
Mental illness can be part of the story of how a person ends up homeless — or part of the price of survival on the streets, where sleep and safety are scarce.
For California teen, coverage of a early psychosis treatment proved a lifesaver
The 16-year-old from Rio Linda, a suburb of Sacramento, was the fortunate beneficiary of what her mom described as lifesaving mental health care from an early psychosis program at the University of California-Davis, covered largely by Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid.
Royalty Pharma acquires interest in Karuna Therapeutics’ schizophrenia treatment for up to $500M
MM+M’s Stephen Madden sits down with Janis Cohen and Dan Weber of Havas Health & You to discuss their pro-bono work seeking to destigmatize mental illness and more.