New York City's Metropolitan Hospital psychiatric staff members are quitting, citing an understaffed environment incapable of accommodating patient needs and incidents that have left staff injured, local news source Gothamist reported July 19.
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Despite the widespread theory that an imbalance of serotonin levels in the brain causes depression, there is no convincing evidence that depression is associated with, or caused by, lower serotonin concentrations or activity, a study published July 20 in Molecular…
A monthly poll by the American Psychiatric Association found that 87 percent of respondents were "anxious or very anxious" about inflation and 50 percent were concerned about personal loss of income, both ranking higher than respondents reporting anxiety about gun…
Legislators approved plans for a 200-bed, $237 million psychiatric hospital in Dallas County, Texas, but some area officials don't think it's enough to properly serve the area, Fox 4 News reported July 19.
The Texas Medical Board has suspended the medical license of Dallas-based psychiatrist David Henderson after his charges of two separate counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in March and April, Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported July 14.
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Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health and Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare plan to build a 144-bed behavioral health hospital in Greenville.
Colorado's newly formed behavioral health administration aims to address the shortage of mental health workers, set behavioral healthcare quality standards and help businesses provide access to these services for their employees, according to the Denver Business Journal.
A report from the Spokane (Wash.) Police Department's behavioral health unit shows that 80 percent of the people it contacted did not end up in jail or the hospital, The Spokesman-Review reported July 15.
Nicole Kasimatis, the owner of Quincy, Mass.-based Fortitude Counseling and Recovery Center, was sentenced to at least three years in prison after she pled guilty to fraudulent billing, the state attorney general's office said July 15.
In the last two months, Becker's has reported on at least nine physicians who have come under fire for illegally prescribing, selling or distributing opioids and other addictive drugs, including one so prolific he called himself "El Chapo of Opioids."