Category Archives: Poverty

Children on west side showing signs of PTSD in midst of shootings …

Shooting, drugs, and poverty are among the issues that are causing PTSD in kids on the west side.

Ensure community mental health services can continue supporting …

Recently the Victorian government released a 10-year plan Mental Health Plan. The 10-year plan recognises that mental health is everyone's business and that other sectors and systems have a role in addressing the social …

Assisted dying: Disability rights campaigners lose court challenge …

'Disability rights campaigners who say the assisted suicide policy in England and Wales is too “liberal” have lost a High Court legal challenge.' Full story. BBC News, 4th December 2015. Source: www.bbc.co.uk.

Newron Initiates U.S. Phase II Trial in Patients with Schizophrenia …

NW-3509 – First voltage-gated sodium channel blocker as add-on therapy for the treatment of schizophrenia. MILAN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–December 2, 2015–. Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. (“Newron”), a research and …

Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America

A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …