A bill to include immunity for helping someone in a mental health crisis under the state’s Good Samaritan laws has passed in ...

Bravo to Palm Beach County commissioners, for pledging a substantial investment in mental health care. The board voted ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly has introduced legislation intended to curtail barriers to emergency mental health treatment. Assembly Bill 384, or the Mental Health Protection Act, would prevent ...

A Tunisian man serving a life sentence in Canada for plotting to kill passengers by derailing a VIA Rail train has convinced ...

Diane Watts was Jamie’s community mental health worker and had known him for a long time. She told the inquest she had ...

The father of Gina Montalto, 14, who was killed at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school, continues to fight for school ...

Too many people can't afford the high out-of-pocket costs for mental health care. A proposal in the Legislature aims to fix that by getting mental health care professionals reimbursed adequately, two ...

Medical doctors face higher rates of burnout and depression, and are twice as likely to die by suicide compared with the ...

SEOUL: In response to the tragic stabbing of an eight-year-old student by a teacher, the government is advancing legislation that would allow authorities to place teachers on mandatory leave if they ...

Caroline Ouko, the mother of Irvo Otieno is putting her support behind a piece of legislation that she says could have helped saved him from being sent to jail and his eventual death.

It’s been three months since California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, a new law that pledged to provide ...

In January, 2025, several executive orders were issued limiting federal funding for gender-affirming health care, declaring that there are only two biological sexes, and halting diversity programmes.1 ...