Articles, Leading Stories
Diabetes: Research shows increased risk for mental health issues
By Phyllis Hanlon
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2014, diabetes affected approximately 29.1 million people or 9.3 percent of the United States...
Psychologist helps families cope with childhood illnesses
By Catherine Robertson Souter
When a child has medical issues complicated by psychological ones, a family may find themselves with limited skills to cope with an escalating situation. A serious affliction...
Treating responders: a shift in technique
By Phyllis Hanlon
The devastation that occurred on 9/11 shook the entire world. But since that time, numerous other traumatic events – the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the San...
MPA advocates lifting gun research funding ban
By Janine Weisman
A move by the Massachusetts Psychological Association to push for the removal of barriers on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ability to fund research on...
Maine law places restrictions on opioid prescriptions
By Pamela Berard
Echoing a nation-wide problem, Maine is working to stem the rise of opioid use and overdose.
Maine reported more than 270 drug overdose deaths in 2015 – a 31 percent...
Massachusetts extends deadline for EHR adoption
By Janine Weisman
Massachusetts behavioral health care providers have more time to fully adopt electronic health record systems (EHR) that connect to the state’s health information exchange...
Bridgewater State Hospital to enhance treatment services
By Pamela Berard
Bridgewater State Hospital, Massachusetts’ only secure psychiatric hospital for adult males, which houses and treats mentally ill men either charged with or convicted of a...
Chief medical officer resigns from New Hampshire Hospital
By Catherine Robertson Souter
After a tumultuous seven months that has seen a number of resignations of hospital staff, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the...
Grant aims to build trauma sensitivity in schools
By Rivkela Brodsky
Providence Children &Youth Cabinet – a coalition of organizations, systems, residents and youth organized around community-generated priorities in Providence, R.I. –...
New England Center for Children opens research institute
By Phyllis Hanlon
In 1975, the New England Center for Children (NECC) in Southborough was founded to “transform the lives of children with autism worldwide through education, research and...