Psychiatry

Ethel McGill, 68, of Runcorn, Cheshire, was at the heart of a 'spider's web' of deceit that amounted to the biggest ever individual benefit fraud in history, officials ...

Just two months after being sentenced to five years federal probation, a Visalia man was found in violation of the terms of his probation.

Families on welfare, children in the foster care system, sex offenders, seniors in long-term care facilities, people living with disabilities or struggling with mental ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Families on welfare, children in the foster care system, sex offenders, seniors in long-term care facilities, people living with disabilities or ...

Researchers identified gender differences in how the Alzheimer's-related protein tau spreads in the brain.

Rates of Alzheimer's disease are higher in women than in men, and researchers now think they know why. A team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, ...

A judge excluded the public from a courtroom at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee today because the details in a child pornography case were so "gross".

Less than 48 hours after Minnesota Human Services Commissioner Tony Lourey unexpectedly stepped down from his post, two top deputies who had ...

A year ago today, stressed, sleep-deprived, picking over the wording of my introductory column and anxious about our roster of stories, I waited for the Mercury's ...

A year ago today, stressed, sleep-deprived, picking over the wording of my introductory column and anxious about our roster of stories, I waited for the Mercury's ...

Taking the profit motive out of health care would ensure that hospitals could provide excellent care to all who need it.

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen. SOUTHAMPTON, New York (JTA) – This is one of the strangest stories you'll ever read, about one of the strangest stories ever told ...

SINGAPORE — A woman who held on to the illicit funds obtained from a scam had only been looking for love when she met the scammer who tried using her as ...

Antipsychotic drugs might cause acutely occurring, serious side-effects and thus contribute to the increased physical morbidity and mortality observed in patients ...

It has a few different names, depending who you ask. People do agree, though, it's an idea that will shake up an industry and potentially be a precursor to the ...

It would be “completely logical” for a person facing potentially dire consequences to tell barefaced lies. Often the best strategy is simply to respond, “I don't know ...

EH SHEPHARD: Illustrator EH Shephard is best known for his work on AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh books, but he was a cartoonist in his own right too. This new ...

Video game technology and design has seen explosive development and innovation over the last decade. We look at how game design impacts our brains, how ...

How the 45th president has packed the courts with ultraconservatives—and reshaped the judiciary for a generation.

A man died at a Tampa hospital after staff could not perform life-saving procedures because of a “do not resuscitate” order his Orlando guardian filed against his ...