Month: December 2015

IMPD Chief Rick Hite defends officers actions in shooting, calls for …

Goodlow's family members told Fox 59 he suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Chief Hite said this shooting highlights the need for more mental health services in Indianapolis. "We have to have again a …

Fire Kills 23, Injures 23 at Russian Home for Mental Illness Patients …

A fire swept through a Russian home for people with mental illnesses, killing 23 patients and injuring another 23, many of whom were unable to walk.

The Announcer : Mental health awareness grows in importance

One in four adults and 20% of youth ages 13 to 18 deal with mental illnesses. In the past few years, mental illness awareness and education has greatly increased, in large part due to social media and specifically, mental …

These Incredible People Are Changing How Isolated Asian Groups …

As well as treating Hmong patients, Lo is conducting research to better understand how mental illness is understood in the community — finding that previous efforts to do so had gotten lost in translation. The few psychiatrists …

Report Implicates Societal, Health Care Systems In Early Mortality of …

In general, people with mental disorders tend to die decades earlier than the general population, mostly as a result of preventable and treatable chronic.