mental health

As we approach the 2025 Penn State Board of Trustees election, we must recognize and urgently prioritize the need for stronger representation from hea...

DEAR ABBY: My 38-year-old daughter attempted suicide a week ago. She had been living with her fiance, and they shared an apartment and had two cats. M...

LAPORTE — The facts and figures around rural healthcare in Pennsylvania are grave. That’s why it was unsurprising to hear Gov. Josh Shapiro say in a p...

WARREN — To serve growing needs in the region, Deerfield Behavioral Health of Warren welcomed psychiatric medical providers Dr. Joshua Halbauer, Dr. V...

RIDGWAY — Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI), an affiliate of Journey Health System (JHS), welcomed Dr. Vikram Panwar to their team of psychiatric care provi...

SMETHPORT — Commissioners announced McKean County is one of five recipients statewide to receive a $3 million grant to establish an Emergency Behavior...

WARREN — Beacon Light Behavioral Health System (BLBHS), an affiliate of Journey Health System, announced it is offering BrainsWay’s Deep Transcranial ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Jessica Tucker, a 38-year-old mother living in Brookline, started feeling depressed when she was 20 weeks pregnant. Tucker spoke to...

HARRISBURG — Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) Secretary Dr. Latika Davis-Jones joined the Pennsylvania Lottery, the Pennsylvania Gaming ...

ST. MARYS — Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI), a nonprofit organization and affiliate of Journey Health System (JHS), announced it has exceeded its $1.5 mil...

SOCIAL: How “social” is social media? Studies have shown it can have detrimental impacts on users. Multiple studies have linked high usage to increase...

HARRISBURG —Treating traumatic brain injury, or TBI, can be a long and costly road. Experts in the field say that leaving these injuries untreated or ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has sent a letter to Lieutenant General Telita Crosland, director of the Defense Health Agency, urging t...

TikTok went dark inthe United Statesfor a little while, but is now back online here thanks to a stay of execution fromDonald Trump. The newly inaugura...

I began practicing psychotherapy during the Reagan administration. Thirty years went by before distress about politics became a clinical issue for any...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) announced the creation of a new licensure program to obtain a telehealth-...

HARRISBURG — With the start of the new year, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Kevin Dougherty and the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts a...

HARRISBURG — Students, parents, and teachers are anxiously watching and waiting to see how the state’s billion-dollar education funding increase and n...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, emergency services Chief Matt Brown, Department of Human Services officials and municip...

STUFFIES: Do you have a stuffed animal or two or 200 that you can’t bear to part with? You aren’t the only one, and there’s no reason to be embarrasse...