Approaches to Mental Illness
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Daniel Bergner that questioned mandatory psychiatric treatment.
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Daniel Bergner that questioned mandatory psychiatric treatment.
Mr. Christie left the governor’s office in New Jersey and set out to, as he put it, “make money.” He successfully traded on his political profile — and on his ties to the man he now wants to defeat.
New treatments are changing once deadly forms of the disease into manageable long-term illnesses. But not all patients are benefiting.
Wegovy and other drugs expose a social tension between a quest to medicate illness and a stigmatizing belief that obese people lack sufficient willpower to lose weight.
Advisers to the agency overwhelmingly agreed that a new treatment would help to prevent a potentially lethal respiratory illness in very young children.
The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.
The company is heavily reliant on a cancer drug that could be targeted by a program intended to lower drug prices.
An underdiscussed issue with forced mental health care.
The way health care providers negotiate drug prices has put the squeeze on manufacturers.