Sep 4th, 2007 · A new study in the medical journal The Lancet shows no country does a particularly good job caring for those with serious psychiatric illnesses. Still, there are things poor countries can do to help the mentally ill.
Aug 29th, 2007 · Two years after Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans residents need mental health care, but there are few resources and almost no psychiatric beds. With nowhere to turn, people in the city have been forced to take drastic steps.
Apr 20th, 2007 · The Virginina Tech gunman had been sent for a psychiatric evaluation in 2005, and was discharged from the hospital. Evidently he was judged not to be a risk to others. According to many psychology experts, it's nearly impossible to predict who is going to be violent.
Jan 3rd, 2007 · A court-ordered psychiatric evaluation is to be completed this week on Jose Padilla, the American held without charge for nearly four years as an enemy combatant. Whatever the judge decides, the legal saga of the Padilla case poses significant difficulties for the government.
Nov 14th, 2006 · The FDA has ordered new cautionary language for the flu drug Tamiflu, telling doctors and patients to be on the lookout for abnormal behavior in people taking the drug. More than 100 recent cases of delirium, hallucinations and other unusual psychiatric behavior have been reported in Japanese patients.
Oct 8th, 2006 · In her poems, Margaret Robison describes her recovery from stroke and the time she spent in a psychiatric hospital. But it's her son Augustin Burroughs' words in his memoir Running with Scissors that have defined her.
Sep 21st, 2006 · In Baltimore, a psychiatric hospital is offering high-end, luxurious accommodations to teenagers with serious mental illness. The cost is $1,700 a day, and insurance isn't accepted. One teen who was treated at the facility says it changed her life.
Aug 17th, 2006 · For years there has been controversy over how many Vietnam veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder -- a psychiatric condition that can result from experiencing a terrifying danger. Using combat records for the first time, a landmark study in the journal Science comes up with a number lower than the onetime estimate of 30 percent but still significant: close to 20 percent.