“It surely is a long agonising wait before a physician allows euthanasia, because there is always something left to try to make your suffering more bearable. Recommendations from two other physicians ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­– Tammie Lee Demler, PharmD, a board-certified psychiatric pharmacist who works at a Buffalo inpatient ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed legislation allowing terminally ill adults to seek medical aid-in-dying medication, making ...

New strategies are needed to provide safe and supportive options for when nursing home residents with serious mental illness are eventually discharged back into the community, new research finds.

Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty? “I cannot get through a day,” Paula had said at an assessment for ...

Grand Junction retiree Linda Stout didn’t just listen when friends shared sad stories about their adult children’s struggles with mental illness. She spent the next two years making a documentary film ...

Many nurses and certified nursing assistants at skilled nursing facilities across California say they do not have the training to deal with the increased number of mentally ill patients they are ...