What responsibility does an institution have to the wider community when it has identified a deeply disturbed individual?

Sally Satel, M.D., writes that in the wake of the Arizona shooting, now is the time to mandate the reporting of mental health concerns to help prevent future tragic incidents.

Full disability status may undermine the possibility of recovery because its very nature suggests a small likelihood of improvement.

The latest public opinion data on Hillary as a role model, Americans' mental health, and more.

Do not expect change any time soon. Federal "advocates" are standing in the way of reform.

A lesson from 9/11 is that therapists must find a balance between letting people know help is available and suggesting that they need help when they do not.

The health news for the New York City is good — very good, in fact. And it must be especially gratifying to Bloomberg, given his longstanding personal commitment to public health. But it isn’t clear that the official narrative of New York’s health progress actually conforms with the health story for New York over the last decade.

New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.