Va. Studies Directives Giving the Mentally Ill A Say in Their Care
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Yvonne Smith has had a pair of mental illnesses diagnosed over the years, but it wasn't until a severe psychotic episode landed her in a psychiatric ward that she came to a sober realization: Although her family and friends had long been supportive of her struggles with bipolar disorder, they...
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PORTLAND, Ore.  -- Federal investigators are looking into patient care at the hospital made famous in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," where there have been reports of abuse, short staffing and overcrowding.
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Patients could be offered therapies such as acupuncture on the NHS under plans being considered by the assembly government.
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When Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho committed suicide, he not only foreclosed any opportunity for officials to question him about his killing spree, but also ensured that his mental health records will remain secret &#151; at least until a court says otherwise.
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More ex-service personnel will get free mental health assessments, under plans to be announced.
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Everything in Ward 3D East is locked, even the windows. Located inside the District of Columbia VA Medical Center, only three miles from the Veterans Affairs headquarters where national health policies are made, the psychiatric ward is a refuge for mentally ill homeless veterans and those plagued...
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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Relatives of the student gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus turned over his mental health records to a gubernatorial panel investigating the shootings, the panel's chairman said Thursday.
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A top policeman wants the law to make it easier for doctors to identify mentally ill patients who could become killers.
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Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a gun on herself last year in Iraq, attempted to kill herself Monday evening. In so doing, the...
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A new study suggests that doctors may devote too little time to talking with elderly patients about mental illnesses.
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RICHMOND -- The Virginia General Assembly is trying to rewrite the complex laws that govern the state's power companies, moving toward an untested approach to electricity regulation and prompting charges from consumer groups that monthly bills will rise.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) announced a plan yesterday to pump $42 million into Virginia's troubled mental heath system, a proposal that advocates and state officials said is the beginning of an intense discussion about how aggressively the state should adopt reform.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- A panel investigating the Virginia Tech massacre obtained university mental health records of the student gunman after weeks of negotiation with his family, officials said Thursday.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine met Saturday for two hours with relatives of those killed at Virginia Tech and pledged they would have access to a panel investigating the shootings, but stopped short of giving them a seat on the panel. The relatives have demanded representation on an eight-member panel Kaine has appointed to investigate the April 16 shootings that left 33 dead.
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Some outside scientists wondered whether a Department of Veterans Affairs panel was stretching thin data to tell veterans what they wanted to hear in the committee's recent report.
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New federal legislation would provide grants to help counties and states establish and expand mental health services for people in the legal system or who have been incarcerated.