Compared to white women, Black women are still far more likely to suffer pregnancy-related complications or die than the overall population in the United States. Increasingly, experts say, the crisis ...

Air pollution has been convincingly linked to respiratory illnesses, while run-off from industries has not only diminished water quality but dirtied supply with so-called "forever chemicals" that have ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled mix of genes and life experience, with no single culprit to blame. Now ...

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A study published Wednesday revealed that gasoline containing lead was the direct cause of 150 million cases of mental illness in the United States. The study published in the Journal of Child ...

Mental illness exists in a space scientists are still working to understand. Unlike many medical conditions with targeted treatments, mental health disorders often respond unpredictably, varying ...

Persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities represent a significant proportion of the world’s population. Millions of people worldwide have mental health conditions and an estimated one in four ...

Mental health is increasingly recognized as a universal human right and an essential foundation of human development. Yet across the world, millions remain without access to the support they need, ...

Many years ago, I said to one of my doctors that I believed undiagnosed and/or untreated brain injury causes much mental illness. If we treat the neurons, then the illness will clear up. He hadn’t ...

The Cherokee Nation is adding a new option to its justice system aimed at addressing the root causes of nonviolent crime.