Articles, Leading Stories
Firms place limits on mental health treatment
By Elinor Nelson
Psychologists may be seeing more managed care from their patients’ insurers. Faced with increasing costs, some employers and insurers are controlling utilization by...
Mass. joins lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson
By Elinor Nelson
Massachusetts is joining a U.S. Attorney-filed federal lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. It alleges that the drug company paid kickbacks to boost the number of elderly...
New scale created to measure anxiety
By Elinor Nelson
There is no shortage of self-report questionnaires to measure anxiety, but Mark Zimmerman, M.D. and his colleagues at Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown...
VA could get psychiatric facility
By Elinor Nelson
There’s no dispute that Vermont needs to replace Vermont State Hospital. At 120 years of age, it’s antiquated and has been denied recertification. The governor knows it and...
Report documents sexual victimization of youths in custody
By Elinor Nelson
It was 24 years ago at age 12 that Troy Erik Isaac of Los Angeles was first gang raped by other youths while in California state custody. “I was a troubled youth,” he says...
Stimulus money will fund Rhode Island Early Head Start
By Elinor Nelson
The most vulnerable population in R.I. is about to get a leg up – or at least a tiny percentage of them will. Federal stimulus money totaling $1.6 million will be funding an...
Westborough State Hospital to close ahead of schedule
By Elinor Nelson
In a money saving plan expected to help meet the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health’s $14 million shortfall entering fiscal year 2010, the state will be closing...