Emergency rooms saw a 44 percent increase of patients with either a mental illness or a substance use disorder, according to CNN. A 2017 report from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality ...

The research, which is being supported by 10 NHS trusts, could “transform” the understanding of severe mental illness, officials said ...

A judge in Tacoma wants to stop the practice of “parking” mentally ill patients in hospital emergency rooms, sometimes for days at a time, without psychiatric treatment. It’s also known as “boarding” ...

“It surely is a long agonising wait before a physician allows euthanasia, because there is always something left to try to make your suffering more bearable. Recommendations from two other physicians ...

New strategies are needed to provide safe and supportive options for when nursing home residents with serious mental illness are eventually discharged back into the community, new research finds.

Many nurses and certified nursing assistants at skilled nursing facilities across California say they do not have the training to deal with the increased number of mentally ill patients they are ...

Patients suffering from serious mental illness who are hospitalized for mania are more likely to be taking antibiotics to treat infections than patients without a mental disorder, according to a new ...

CONCORD, N.H. — A psychiatric patient with a criminal history escaped from New Hampshire Hospital for the third time in nine months. The incident comes only weeks after the state received a notice ...

“This is a failure of ethics, accountability and humanity,” Margaret Marsilla said ...

Thane Psychiatric Hospital reunites over 2,200 patients with families, breaking stigma around mental illness in India ...