Latest Health Articles for Mental Health

• Fla. man gets deal in dementia-plagued dad's death

  article 2009-11-13  |  Author: Matt Sedensky
  A man charged with killing his Alzheimer's disease.Bobby Yurkanin, 53, of Fort Lauderdale, will ......

• Investigators: Fort Hood suspect acted alone

  article 2009-11-10  |  Author: Devlin Barrett
  The Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood massacre is believed to have acted alone despite repeated communications — monitored by authorities — with a radical imam overseas, U.S. officials said Monday. The FBI will conduct an internal review of its handling of the information, they said.An investigative official and ......

• Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia

  article 2009-09-21  |  Author: Lauran Neergaard
  More than 35 million people around the world are living with dementia, says the most in-depth attempt yet to assess the brain-destroying illness — and it's an ominous forecast as the population grays.The new count is about 10 percent higher ......

• Smoking in the military: An old habit dies hard

  article 2009-08-30  |  Author: Deb Riechmann
  Gen. Douglas MacArthur had his signature corncob pipe. Soldiers got cigarettes in their C-rations during World War II. Even today, America's war on tobacco seems to have largely bypassed the military.Now a proposal to make the forces smoke-free is drawing strong reactions from troops who have served in Iraq and ......

• Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer

  article 2009-08-24  |  Author: Lindsey Tanner
  Calls to poison control centers about teens abusing attention-deficit drugs soared 76 percent over eight years, sobering evidence about the dangerous consequences of prescription misuse, a study shows.The calls were from worried parents, emergency room doctors and others seeking advice on how to deal with the problem, which can be ......

• Husband denies alcoholism in NY wrong-way crash

  article 2009-08-07  |  Author: Frank Eltman
  She couldn't have been drunk and stoned. Her husband had never seen her intoxicated before. And there were absolutely no marital problems that could have sent her over the edge.In an anguished, sometimes angry news conference, Daniel Schuler refused to accept an autopsy report that showed his wife had the ......

• Soldiers in Colorado slayings tell of Iraq horrors

  article 2009-07-27  |  Author: Staff
  Soldiers from an Army unit that had 10 infantrymen accused of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter after returning to civilian life described a breakdown in discipline during their Iraq deployment in which troops murdered civilians, a newspaper reported Sunday.Some Fort Carson, Colo.-based soldiers have had trouble adjusting to life back ......

• Minn. man killed by deputy after day of swimming

  article 2009-07-22  |  Author: Elizabeth Dunbar And Amy Forliti
  A plainclothes sheriff's deputy shot and killed an unarmed 24-year-old man wearing only swim trunks after an argument ensued when he confronted the man for erratic driving, authorities and witnesses said Tuesday.Le Sueur County Sheriff's investigator Todd Waldron, 37, shot Tyler Heilman after the two scuffled Monday in Kasota, a ......

• American kills 5 fellow soldiers at clinic in Iraq

  article 2009-05-12  |  Author: Robert H. Reid
  An American Army sergeant shot and killed five fellow soldiers following an altercation at a military counseling center in Iraq Monday, officials said. The attack drew attention to the issues of combat stress and morale among soldiers serving multiple combat tours over six years of war.The suspect had been disarmed ......

• Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders

  article 2008-11-30  |  Author: Lolita C. Baldor
  Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.Facing prospects that one in five of the 101st Airborne Division ......