What Happened: More than 60 House Democrats are pressing Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins for answers about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The lawmakers sent the secretary a letter last week asking questions about the state of VA care, citing a ProPublica investigation…
Guards at an immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, could see a detainee in his cell with one end of a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and the other tied to the door handle. If they opened the door, the sheet would tighten and strangle him. The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, had been in…
How teen mental health treatment differs from adult care starts with one plain clinical fact: a teenager isn’t just a smaller, younger adult. The brain is still wiring itself up. And honestly so is everything that rides on it, who they think they are, how they deal with people, the coping skills they’re only starting…
By Kath Hudson 25 Jun 2026 British Rowing is using the new CIMSPA mental health standards / Shutterstock_Corepics VOF Mental health education has been embedded into CIMSPA’s core occupational professional standards Four key knowledge areas have been introduced into the coach and swimming teacher curriculum. Developed alongside Mind, the licensed content was piloted across…
A telehealth company that provided mental health services through video appointments admitted it billed Medicare and Medicaid for patient appointments that never took place — and agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve the allegations. The company, Aptihealth, Inc., and Aptihealth Medical, PLLC, is based in Clifton Park, New York. According to the U.S. Department of…
