ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Children with misaligned eyes have a higher risk of later developing mental illness, U.S.doctors say.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- People with mental health problems should no longer be denied treatment because of cultural stigmas, World Health Organization officials said in Switzerland.
CANBERRA , Australia, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Many believe that people who are depressed can "snap out" of depression, Australian researchers say.
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Mental illness is expected to be the focus in the trial of a Florida teenager accused of killing a classmate in the bathroom of a Miami middle school.
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- The transition from adolescence to adulthood is rarely easy, but is much harder for those with mental illness, a U.S. non-profit official says.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Families and doctors say the U.S. military's misunderstanding of mental illness is further damaging already broken soldiers.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A state-by-state survey finds depression tends to be least common where access to mental healthcare is easiest, a U.S. advocacy group said Wednesday.
BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- More than half of U.S. adults have a mental or physical condition that influences functioning resulting in 3.7 billion days per year lost to illness.
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The world’s mental illness needs are largely going unmet -- especially in less developed nations -- a study of 17 countries found, a U.S. researcher said.
LONDON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Seventy-two percent of British adults think there is a stigma associated with having a mental illness, a study found.
LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Britain's Ministry of Defense is touting a Kings College study that says the overall rate of mental illness in the British armed forces remains low.
WASHINGTON, May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. public hospital directors say people with serious mental illness die 25 years earlier than the average person in the United States.
WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- Mental-health parity advocates set up camp at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to demand equal insurance coverage for mental illness.
WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- The Virginia Tech shootings are spurring a proposal in the U.S. Congress to pressure states to report mental health records to a federal database.
AUGUSTA, Ga., March 27 (UPI) -- Nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population needs mental healthcare, but only about one-third get it, according to a Baltimore study.