Severe mental illness and economic inactivity, poorer health, and disability were associated in a cohort study from England.

Insanity, as a concept, occupies a unique intersection between psychology, neurology, and law. While it has colloquial ...

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a ...

The Victorian Public Sector Commission, in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, recognises the definition of disability as including those who have ...

It’s been a busy year for disabled people. From the Paralympics in Paris to the first ever blind winner of Strictly Come Dancing to a new generation of disabled MPs getting elected to parliament ...

Progress in addressing mental health is notoriously slow and mostly incremental. Breakthrough treatments tend to be rare, and trained professionals too few to meet the demand for services ...

A record half a million adults are claiming disability benefits for anxiety ... This number has doubled since lockdown, with claims linked to mental health soaring since 2020.

There was universal agreement that Trump’s case showed sufficient mental impairment that rendered him unfit to serve as president, even though at that time of its publication, he had already ...

Photo / Tracy Neal A judge has challenged a lawyer over claims that a sex offender’s mental impairment meant he was less morally culpable for his actions. William Godfrey Wood has been sentenced ...

During the last legislative session, a plan to consolidate six health-related agencies, Mental Health, Disability and Special Needs, the Department of Public Health, Department on Aging ...

On Monday Ms McCullock was found not guilty of his murder on the grounds of mental impairment. A Perth mother who killed her 14-month-old son has been found not guilty of murder on the grounds ...