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Washington’s mental health counseling community soon will face major regulatory changes that could increase costs for providers and consumers and potentially affect access to services. The firs...

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield was offering. So since summer 2007, it’s been living without them. The practice, Greater Cincinnati’s largest mental health group, dropped out of Anthem...

Talking about a depression in the current environment is not consistent with the facts and may even be dangerous, since one of the major reasons recessions can turn into depressions is a loss of confi...

A so-called “sweetener” in the $700 billion financial bailout package passed by Congress was the Mental health Parity Act of 2008. The legislation requires employers who offer mental heal...

A REPEAT of the Great Depression is highly unlikely, largely because of the massive rescue plans now in place, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) chief economist Klaus Schmi...

? Depressed pregnant women have twice the risk of preterm delivery than pregnant women with no symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The ...

A mental health specialist from the US holds up his US passport and his invitation from the World Health Organisation to attend a conference in Gaza as international human rights activists and foreign...

Dozens of mental health specialists on Sunday protested Israel's closure of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after they were prevented from entering to attend a conference there. Around 70 demonstrators wav...

"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all." It's true too - next time you are lost in a foreign country, just flash a smile and the locals will be happy to help you find your way. An honest smile can convey a wide range of meanings, from being happy to having fun. Although, not all smiles are genuine. All of us have "faked a smile" at some point. Now, a new study might make us think twice about sending out a phony grin.

Youths in their late teens who live in poor neighbourhoods are four times more likely to attempt suicide than peers who live in more affluent neighbourhoods, according to a new study from Canada's Université de Montréal and Sainte-Justine hospital Research Center, as well as Tufts University in the U.S. the researchers also found Youths from poor neighbourhoods are twice as likely to report suicidal thoughts.