Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A security guard contracted by NYC Health and Hospitals was arrested for preventing armed NYPD officers responding to a call for ...

In 1967, a promising young painter told a group of documentary filmmakers that she could not bear the ugliness of the world. She intended, she explained, “to do something. Instead of beauty and power ...

The shortages mean that patients who enter an emergency room with an acute psychiatric crisis may wait days or weeks for a bed, inmates who qualify for psychiatric care may wait in jail for several ...

UMass Memorial Medical Center’s proposal to cut 13 psychiatric beds next year was met with scrutiny from mental health advocates and nurses working at the hospital, reports MassLive. Here are four ...