Amid a quiet legislative session for health, lawmakers’ priority legislation reinforced the U.S. health secretary’s agenda.

A decade ago the psychologist and thriller writer Frank Tallis published The Sleep Room, a disturbing tale of a monomaniacal psychiatrist who subjected female patients to months of high dose sedatives ...

A cache of court records has been unsealed in the high-stakes legal battle between Kansas abortion providers and Attorney ...

Last year, more than 1,700 orders for involuntary electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were approved by tribunals in Australia.

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A Spokane woman is using a Texas-based “detransitioner” law firm to sue local medical offices for malpractice following regrets of transitioning to a man.

A number of companies, like Upheal, Blueprint, and Heidi Health, have begun offering AI-powered tools designed to make therapists more efficient at documenting sessions and completing administrative ...

A Greater Manchester mental health trust has been issued an urgent ... It revealed breaches to people’s safety and patients’ consent to care and treatment. The CQC also found that there ...

When we are looking at the role of a mental health professional ... I use polyvagal informed eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Working with EMDR helps patients look at the ...

Informed consent is vital for any clinical trial. However, the length and complexity of consent information can lead to patients misconstruing key points and failing to understand the implications ...

Patient preferences ... including the IC [informed consent] process and education,” the researchers wrote. Disclosures: This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and ...