Proving that America’s legal system considers the mental health and welfare of all…A judge gave a Tennessee zoo six months to convince him that an African elephant named Ruby is adapting well to her new home after being separated from a pachyderm friend in Los Angeles last year.

In July, the Human Development Center will begin connecting Bauer once a month to patients at the Cook County North Shore Hospital using secure, high-capacity telephone lines, computers, televisions and microphones.
It is the Duluth nonprofit’s first telepsychiatry clinic. The link will allow Bauer to treat patients during time usually spent driving along Highway 61. The […]

It is hard to imagine the anguish experienced by the parents, relatives, and friends of a child who has taken his or her own life. That such an event could be precipitated by a supposedly beneficial drug is a catastrophe. The idea of that drug’s use being based on the selective reporting of favourable research […]

This long but interesting article describes several holistic therapies including yoga, massage, accupuncture, nutrition, and others, and how they may help treat drug or alcohol addictions, eating disorders, stress or even smoking.
When addressing an addiction, all holistic techniques begin with the same basic philosophy: people develop addictions to correct an “imbalance” within them. […]

Girls born in the summer have fewer children as adults than women born at other times of the year, according to researchers. A study of more than 3,000 Austrian women suggests a woman’s birthday influences her reproductive performance.
A range of factors such as climate, light, and nutrition could explain why women born in June, July […]

Young women who have trouble concentrating might just need more iron in their diets, researchers say. Women in the Penn State study who were iron-deficient performed significantly worse on memory and attention tests than healthy women, and an iron supplement was all it took to correct the problem. “We were able to bring it right […]

Last July, Steven Miller, a university librarian, came across an article about a set of neurological conditions he had never heard of called autistic spectrum disorders. By the time he finished reading, his face was wet with tears.
“This is me,” Mr. Miller remembers thinking in the minutes and months of eager research that followed. “To […]

For the average backseat driver, about the only thing worse than taking the wrong exit on a busy highway is watching someone else take the wrong exit — from the passenger seat. So it may not be surprising that the brain of a scolding passenger shows the same pattern of activity as that of an […]

Recent news reports questioning the safety and effectiveness of several antidepressant medications widely prescribed for children — Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and Celexa — raise a key question: What other treatments have been proven safe and effective for kids with depression?
The practice guidelines of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists (AACAP) hold that […]

Writing about emotional topics appears to reduce stress in HIV-infected patients and may improve immune responses, according to researchers in New Zealand and the US.

U.S. regulators have warned Johnson & Johnson unit Janssen Pharmaceutica that a letter sent to doctors about its Risperdal drug to treat schizophrenia and bipolar mania is misleading. In a warning disclosed on Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration told Janssen that its November letter failed to disclose information added to Risperdal’s labeling about […]

One of the most popular antidepressants, best known by the brand name Prozac, can affect the development of babies when pregnant women take the drug, according to a government report released on Tuesday. Normal doses can cause babies to be born lighter and sleepier than normal, or make them jittery or cause respiratory problems, […]