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Heavy advertising and other strategies from Silicon Valley’s playbook boost providers’ growth but not the quality of care.

An Illinois school for students with disabilities has routinely used the police to handle discipline, resulting in the highest arrest rate of any district in the country. In one recent year, half of Garrison School students were arrested.

Wickliffe Draper spent his inheritance helping to skew the science of human difference. That mission continues among beneficiaries of his largesse.

Earth’s largest animals are singing in ever-lower tones, and nobody knows why.

This is what the future of mental health could look like.

After her baby died in the night, a young mother called 911. Police thought they could read her mind just by listening. Now she’s haunted by the words she chose.

Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood.

Mayor Eric Adams directed city agencies, including the Police Department, to take people who appear mentally ill and seem likely to harm others to hospitals for psychiatric care.

The two countries are outliers in routinely rejecting potential migrants on the basis of medical needs, leaving families with one ill member to struggle in a legal limbo.

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

Everyone has bouts of distraction and forgetfulness. Here’s when psychiatrists diagnose it as something clinical.

Right-wing extremist violence in the U.S. is part of a global phenomenon. It should be treated that way.

Infographic reveals the startling complexity of sex determination

With doctors divided and federal guidelines still in development, Canadians have questions about who will qualify for MAID next year – and whether it’s a good idea to give the most vulnerable an easier way to die

Experts say poverty and stress are making people sicker, and driving a lot of Canadians with disabilities to consider ending their lives.

We are keeping many people in prison even though they are no danger to the public.

Up to a third of adults will experience at least one panic attack in their lifetime. Here's why they happen, and some coping strategies that work.

Game of love or game of logic?

At Yale, suicidal students are pressured to withdraw, then must apply to get back into the university -- an approach under increasing attack from mental health activists and alumni

Science applies to every important social issue. Saying so doesn’t make us “unscientific”

How ‘stereotype promise’ shapes Asian Americans’ educations.

The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.

When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe?

Dr. Nicole LePera, better known as @The.Holistic.Psychologist, has over 2.6 million followers, but her "self-healing" approach has started to wear thin.

More than half of these deaths occur well after the mom leaves the hospital. To save lives, mothers need more support in the "fourth trimester, that time after the baby is born," one researcher says.

Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini is on a mission to fight bias in algorithms. In this comic, Buolamwini discusses the way biased algorithms can lead to real world inequality — and what we can do.

In 13 US states, abortion is banned even in the earliest stages of pregnancy. But we rarely see what such tissue really looks like

New research shows that our assumptions about eating disorders are often wrong — and that many larger-bodied people are starving themselves.

For disabled people, attempting to take political office can be a huge gamble.

Being offended by something that someone did or said can be upsetting — but it doesn't have to eat away at us. Mental health experts share how to slow down and gain clarity when things get personal.