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With heightened awareness of college students’ psychological stress, worried state officials and campus leaders in California are providing more money and expanding programs to promote mental health.
The first drug for women suffering postpartum depression received federal approval on Tuesday, a move likely to pave the way for a wave of treatments to address a debilitating condition that is the most common complication of pregnancy.
In the wake of high-profile school shootings, many schools over the past decade have invested scarce educational funds into putting more police in schools.
In a scathing decision released Tuesday, a federal judge in Northern California ruled that a unit of UnitedHealth Group, the giant health insurer, had created internal policies aimed at effectively discriminating against patients with mental health and substance abuse disorders to save money.
Of the 16 million American adults who live with depression, as many as one-quarter gain little or no benefit from available treatments, whether drugs or talk therapy. They represent perhaps the greatest unmet need in psychiatry.
More firefighters took their own lives than died on the job over that span, though line-of-duty deaths often eclipse suicides in the media and public consciousness.
A small but dedicated group of people in California and across the country is working to change that.
In particular, ACS-CAN and the other patient advocacy groups are concerned about changes to Medicare’s “protected classes,” which include drugs that treat AIDS, cancer, some mental illnesses, and seizure disorders like epilepsy. They also include drugs for patients who received transplants.
The Board of Supervisors approved a motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Janice Hahn to create a countywide plan for the provision of school-based mental health services through the Department of Mental Health.
If a killer roaming America left 47,000 men, women and children dead each year, you can bet society would be demanding something be done to end the scourge.
Well, such a killer exists. It's called suicide, and the rate of it has steadily risen.
