Despite UN calls for bans on involuntary electroshock, new applications for forced ECT at two Connecticut hospitals soared 650 percent in four years—highlighting alarming gaps in consent and patient ...

Yitzchok “Isak” Sklar reportedly left his dying son in a family shelter while fleeing to hide his drug stash. Sklar and his ...

A Monash University analysis of blood tests shows nearly a quarter of injured drivers had illicit drugs in their system.

A Seattle Times investigation shows at least five patient deaths tied to spit hoods over the past decade, yet 15 states still deploy them in mental health settings with no federal safety rules.

A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all.

Honored on an international stage for her humanitarian work, educator Bhavani Sundar reflects on why learning how to learn ...

As the UN champions global efforts against modern-day slavery, scrutiny is mounting over whether its attorney’s financial support of her husband—who long defended the world’s largest child sex ...

A jury found that, after more than two decades at Emporia State, a tenured professor was unlawfully disciplined and pushed ...

Researchers tracked more than 1,000 Australian infants and found children whose mothers used antidepressants in the last three months of pregnancy had up to nine times higher odds of developing autism ...