Becker’s Behavioral Health

More than a dozen companies are racing to win FDA approval for ketamine-based mental health treatments. Providers warn that one company’s bid could sharply raise the cost of the generic drug, while most of the new products are designed to…

Physician burnout continues to decline nationwide, but hospitals and health systems are taking different approaches to addressing workplace stress, including changes to physician surveys, board oversight and clinician leadership training, according to a American Hospital Assocation report. The American Medical…

From a 292-bed state-funded psychiatric hospital in Texas to New Mexico’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit, hospitals and health systems are expanding behavioral health access as demand continues to grow. Here are 62 behavioral health projects to know:

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine Children’s Health appointed Douglas Vanderbilt, MD, as chief of the division of developmental and behavioral pediatrics. Dr. Vanderbilt takes over from Heidi Feldman, MD, PhD, who served as the division’s founding chief and led the…

Spokane, Wash.-based Focused Behavior Solutions, an applied behavior analysis provider for children with autism, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Oct. 8 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington. The company is reorganizing under Subchapter V, a…

Kevin Gray, MD, chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, is leading a federally funded program supporting physician-scientists conducting research on youth mental health and substance use disorders. Dr.…

Sacramento, Calif.-based University of California Davis Health has expanded its behavioral health services with an accelerated treatment option for patients with treatment-resistant depression at its Advanced Psychiatric Therapeutics clinic in East Sacramento. The treatment, known as Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation…

People with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder face a higher risk of death from any cause, as well as from suicide, injuries and natural causes, compared with people without the condition, according to a study published Oct. 19 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers…