Behavioral Health

Vanessa Hazzard and Iresha Picot want more people of color to feel comfortable talking about mental health care. Statistics show t ...

After two years of progress reducing how often Pennsylvania kids on Medicaid are prescribed psychiatric medications, the state is offerin ...

“I feel like I have to re-prove myself every time I go to the doctor” — a patient and a health policy expert weigh in on Am ...

Chelsea Silver has been meditating for more than four years. She’s kind of a meditation pro, and she’s only in the fourth gra ...

A new initiative is trying to combine resources for all organizations serving young men of color. One of the goals is to bring attention ...

As companies begin to think more critically about how to attract and retain job candidates on the autism spectrum, SAP, a global software ...

Anti-anxiety sedatives such as Ativan, Xanax and Valium may not be as safe as once thought. Known as benzodiazepines, the drugs wo ...

New research has found that transgender children who receive social and family support during their transition do not suffer from a highe ...

Just 10 psychiatrists are available for every 100,000 people in Pennsylvania, and they tend to cluster in urban areas. Some don’t a ...

Scientists have discovered that implicit racial bias may diminish when people are reminded of shared group identities. The researc ...

Some of the most severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder tend to be accompanied by psychosis. People have visio ...

After a failed appeal, Independence Blue Cross must cover in-school autism support services for a Philadelphia student. In Novembe ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a new law that creates a special missing person alert for people with mental, intellectual or devel ...

About 10 percent of those who die by suicide had been seen in an emergency room six weeks prior to their death, according to a new study. ...

After Scott Weiland, lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots passed away in early December, his ex-wife, Mary Forsberg Weiland, wrote an ...