A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults.

This new resource offers compassionate, lived-experience guidance to those who may be noticing mental health concerns in loved ones. Arlington, Va. — NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has...

Gov. Tim Walz said state officials were monitoring a “chaotic” situation “and working to understand what unfolded. We received no heads up from federal authorities on this operation.”

Demand for home health care, including at-home hospice care, has skyrocketed since the onset of the covid pandemic. A New Orleans nonprofit is teaching people how to provide end-of-life care for relat...

Artworks to go on display in January at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital From images of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crammed with caricatures to a baby linked by an umbilical-like cord to a seated stranger, artworks on the subject of mental health are to go on display in an exhibition that examines social bonds against the backdrop of today’s polarised times. Artists have long drawn on their own experiences of mental ill health. Staged at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, in south-east London, Kindred will explore the power of communities to make people feel comforted as well as isolated. Continue reading...

The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...

We’d like to talk to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care.

Mental illness is the leading cause of hospitalization for America’s military service members. Anxiety conditions and post-traumatic stress disorders lead the list of diagnoses.

Camden, N.J., recorded no homicides this summer. The milestone is a good starting point for reporters covering gun violence solutions.

About one-in-five U.S. adults say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media, and this is especially common among younger adults.

Limited COVID surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say

Marcus Schmit has taken over for longtime leader Sue Abderholden. His energy, passion and Minnesota connections will continue the organization’s vigorous advocacy, Jill Burcum writes.

Dozens of leaders in medicine, criminal justice and more issued an urgent call for collective action to tackle the gun violence crisis in the U.S.

The federal government is making sweeping changes to SNAP, the program that helped feed about 42 million people in the U.S. last year. Here’s a breakdown of the changes to come and potential impacts.