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The share of U.S. children and adolescents ages 5-17 who have ever received an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis rose from 9.9% in 2019 to 13.8% in 2025, according to CDC data published Oct. 29. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics…
California has the most professionally active psychiatrists while Wyoming has the fewest, according to KFF data as of September 2026. KFF tallied active MDs and DOs in each state and the District of Columbia using a special data request of…
A patient in a behavioral health crisis is stabilized in the emergency department and sent home with a list of phone numbers. Whether they reach anyone, and whether the health system ever finds out, is an open question. A stronger…
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Tulsa, Okla.-based OSU Medicine launched OSU Maternal and Addiction Recovery Care, a program that offers prenatal care, addiction treatment and mental health counseling in one location to pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use disorders. The program held a ribbon-cutting…
The number of U.S. specialty behavioral health hospitals rose to 667 in 2024, an increase of 22 since 2020, according to the American Hospital Association’s 2026 Fast Facts: Behavioral Health infographic. Specialty behavioral health hospitals made up 11% of all…
Stimulants were involved in 46.2% of drug use-associated infective endocarditis hospitalizations in 2022, up from 37.3% in 2016, according to a study published Oct. 27 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora,…
Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…
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Portland, Ore.-based Central City Concern will permanently close the Letty Owings Center, Oregon’s largest residential addiction treatment center for pregnant and parenting women, at the end of October, InvestigateWest reported Oct. 29. The 29-bed center opened in 1989 and allowed…
Houston-based PsychPlus has acquired Precision Psychiatric Services, a California psychiatric group, adding more than 100 psychiatrists to its clinical network. PsychPlus announced the deal Oct. 23. Financial terms were not disclosed. Precision, founded in 2018, is a physician-led organization with…
Mikia Antoneice Noble, co-owner and COO of Advancing Communities Everywhere, a mental health provider in the Richmond, Va., area, was arrested Oct. 28 on federal charges alleging the company billed Virginia Medicaid more than $49 million for crisis services it…
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