Articles, Leading Stories
Munchausen by Internet cases increase
By Rivkela Brodsky
Munchausen by Internet – a syndrome where a person pretends to have a medical condition using the Internet as a tool in this deception – is on the rise, said Marc D....
Dartmouth-Hitchcock awarded contract to staff hospital
By Rivkela Brodsky
Friction over an employment transition at New Hampshire Hospital – the state’s only acute psychiatric care facility – started with the expiration of a contract with...
N.H. prison faces lawsuit for housing mentally ill
By Rivkela Brodsky
The New Hampshire State Prison for Men faces a lawsuit for housing people dealing with severe mental illnesses who have been civilly committed in its Secure Psychiatric...
Revision on wrap-around services focuses on schizophrenia
By Rivkela Brodsky
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has revised who can receive wrap-around community support services under its Medicaid program, focusing mostly on those...
U.S. ranks 13th in World Happiness Report
By Rivkela Brodsky
In the latest World Happiness Report – an update released to coincide with International Day of Happiness on March 20, just 11 months after the 2015 report came out – the...
Report: Suicide deaths on the rise
By Rivkela Brodsky
Suicide deaths in the U.S. have increased from 1999 to 2014 for both genders aged 10-74, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and...
Report examines health indicators on county basis
By Rivkela Brodsky
There is something like a chicken-or-the-egg dilemma coming out of a new county-level analysis of U.S. licensed psychologists done by the American Psychological Association’s...
Spring Harbor Hospital to re-open 12 bed unit
By Rivkela Brodsky
Maine’s Spring Harbor Hospital will be able to reopen a previously closed unit of 12 psychiatric beds by the end of September thanks to a good chunk of funding from the...
Insurance department examines handling of claims
By Rivkela Brodsky
To address the opioid addiction issue in New Hampshire and barriers to care, the state’s insurance department began “a targeted examination” in November 2015 of how...
Legislation aims to address N.H. opioid crisis
By Rivkela Brodsky
New Hampshire is receiving a lot of attention for its “opioid crisis” – but it’s not just a campaign issue. The state has seen a huge increase in opioid overdose deaths...