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.

New guidelines to regulate Australia's booming cosmetic procedures industry have been called "tough" and "a crackdown" in ...

Will new rules for cosmetic injectables actually make the industry safer? - ANALYSIS: Christopher Rudge explains the new ...

When pregnant women are drug tested without their knowledge or consent, they're less likely to trust providers and less ...

More therapists are recording sessions with AI, leading to concerns over consent and data breaches. As generative artificial intelligence becomes embedded in people's everyday lives, one emerging ...

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 ...

By law, the state is supposed to contract with a nonprofit corporation “to advocate on behalf of mental health patients.” "When that isn't happening, that is a big gap," said Melissa Keyes, Executive ...

including Madden Mental Health Center (MHC)." As of the end of April 2025, two of six pavilions that house patients "have completed extensive retrofitting to eliminate known ligature risks ...

The United Nations, World Health Organization ... autopsies for any patient who dies within 14 days of the procedure. This builds on a 1976 CCHR-led reform in California, which was the first U.S. law ...