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Study: Mental illness more common than previously projected
On the whole, mental health issues are given short shift in most med-surg settings, with few providers trained to recognize or handle mental health problems efficiently. Here's a finding, however,... Read more...
U.S. mental health spending rising rapidly
U.S. mental illness spending is rising faster than spending on any other category of healthcare, according to new data released this week by the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: U.S. spends $9B on child mental illness
New statistics have concluded that the U.S. spent $8.9 billion to treat child mental illnesses in 2006, making mental illness the most expensive condition to treat in childhood, according to the... Read more...
States average 'D' grade on public mental health systems
Public mental health infrastructure was far from robust three years ago, and it hasn't improved at all since then, according to a new report from the National Alliances on Mental Illness. According... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Mentally-ill children being restrained in the classroom
Increasingly, children with mild forms of mental retardation and mental illness are being "mainstreamed" into classrooms serving children without disabilities. In theory, that's a good thing, but it... Read more...
Study: Psych patients face especially long ED waits
With the number of psychiatric units dropping in hospitals, and beds scarce, mentally-ill patients in need of hospitalization are waiting for increasingly long periods to be admitted, according to... Read more...
