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Emergency rooms report when patients visit with health problems caused by heat. Find out when and where rates of illness are spiking, and explore trends over the last five years.

Children and teens are dealing with anxiety, depression, and suicide. What explains this crisis and how can we increase access to the resources they need?

Doomscrolling won't help the people who are suffering and it might put you into a state of chronic stress. A psychiatrist who works with trauma shares advice for how to process global tragedy.

Ukraine calculates the agony of war in many ways. Lives lost, homes destroyed, families turned into refugees. There's also trauma that's harder to measure — the collective mental health crisis.

Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, has faced controversy, calls for his resignation and probes over his many falsehoods. Now he faces a federal criminal charge.

Older adults are struggling with loneliness, anxiety, substance abuse - and many also struggle to get the care they need.

The wife of former President Jimmy Carter was 96 years old. She spent decades as a prominent advocate for mental health and professionalized the role of first lady.

A new law will allow more mental health providers to accept Medicare patients. Could this help close the mental health gap for millions of older Americans?

In several California counties, new mental health courts open up in October. Officials hope to persuade people with psychosis to accept treatment. Critics say, it looks more like coercion.

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

Tonight’s program, a first for us, is the first of a two-part series devoted to issues unique to veterans.We are all aware sometimes severe physical injuries, even death, can befall our soldiers. Less discussed are the less visible manifestations of warfare, whether myriad physical health issues, addition to medication, or mental health issues. Relative to their numbers in societly at large, military veterans are overrepresented in the homeless – the list goes on and on.This first segment takes a broader look to veterans and mental health needs, and hopefully resources. Next week, what happens when veterans come into the criminal justice system, the specialized courts and resources devoted to helpfully lending a helping hand to those individuals to whom we owe so much . . . .Joining YLR host, Jeff Hayden, is the President and co-founders of The Overwatch Collective, Jesse Coulter.Question for Jeff and his guest? Call, toll-free, at (866) 798-8255.

The Turkish president's campaign for another term after two decades in power hit a bump this week when he fell ill.