Laura Davisson is an obesity medicine doctor and professor at West Virginia University, but a growing part of her job is not something she trained for in medical school: looking for the best deal she ...

With only two positions filled, the five-member Arizona Psychiatric Security Review Board lacks the three-person quorum required for the board to hold its regular monthly meetings. The board has not ...

Arizona's Psychiatric Security Review Board for months has been unable to hold required hearings about privileges and treatment plans for some Arizona State Hospital patients. The board, which has not ...

NAPA, Calif. – The murder of a Napa State Hospital employee by a criminally insane patient might have been a deliberate attack. Hospital staff and a patient reported threats made by Jess Massey ...

PUBLIC sentiment requires that the insane in hospitals shall, so far as possible, be restored to normal health; and that patients, of both acute and chronic classes, shall be provided with substantial ...

A San Francisco doctor testified Wednesday that Napa State Hospital patient Anthony Gore did not know right from wrong when he strangled another patient more than three years ago. Dr. Bruce Victor ...

When someone mentions the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, many people can tell you it’s about mental patients and stars Jack Nicholson whether they’ve seen the film or not. Those who have ...

The expulsion of Jewish inmates from insane asylums in Germany is demanded in the Reichs-Gezundheitsblatt reaching here today from Berlin. The Nazi medical organ points out that there is a laxity in ...