Psychiatric hospitals could close beds under proposed state rules if regulators don’t allow implementation time, facilities warn.

For the third and final story in EastIdahoNews.com’s Fact or Folklore series on Blackfoot, we saved the best for last, exploring an age-old question that continues to captivate the community: Is State ...

A Seattle Times investigation found medical staff in dozens of states have used spit hoods alongside restraints and sedatives on mental health patients,a practice linked to distress, suffocation and ...

The battle against cancer is not only waged in surgery and hospital outpatient and oncology facilities, as the disease also ...

I kept my traumatic memories of the height of my psychotic breaks in inpatient units a secret. Here's how communicating my experiences has helped me.

A blistering review says that what state mental hospital officials say about abuse, neglect and exploitation of patients does not always match what investigation records show.

In the closing days of the Wild West, a chilling institution was born: the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians. Under the guise of care, it imprisoned Native Americans — many of whom were not mentally ...

The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is known as the DSM-5. What will the next version be called?

In the late 1950s, Wilmington was seeing rapid growth, and predictions pointed to more in the next 15-20 years. It led to ...

The Anacortes Able Housing Initiative is looking to purchase and remodel three houses that have at least two bedrooms and one bathroom each by July of this year to create ...