Introduction Over 100 000 service users are admitted to acute mental health wards annually, many involuntarily. Wards are under incredible pressure due to high bed occupancy rates and staff shortages.

Innovative doctors' offices are renovating with disability rights and accessibility in mind, from wheelchair lifts to quiet rooms.

The Queensland Government has launched an investigation into Child Youth Mental Health Services on the Gold Coast following a ...

Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, it seemed worth looking today’s trajectories a little further forward and imagine where they might lead. Part 1 looked at ...

A violent, mentally unwell woman spends her days shackled and in solitary confinement, waiting for the state to open a safer and more humane hospital unit.

A group of 11 Democratic U.S. senators has raised concerns about the use of full-body restraints on deportation flights. They ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation.

Tensions remain with protests expected to continue, after demonstrations were reported in some towns overnight.

In the first five months of 2024, staff physically restrained patients an average of 150 times per month, or five times in a ...