Alabama promised to improve psychiatric care for men charged with crimes. They still wait years |
Fernando Clark died in the Montgomery County Jail while waiting for psychiatric treatment. He was one of many in Alabama stuck on a waitlist for mental health facilities, despite a 2018 agreement to address delays. The waitlist for the state's only secure psychiatric facility is now almost five times longer than when the agreement was made. Read more. |
Lifelong drugs for autoimmune diseases don't work well. Now scientists are trying something new |
There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases. When your body's immune cells attack you instead of protecting you, today's treatments tamp down the friendly fire but don't fix what's causing it. Now in dozens of studies, scientists are testing ways to reprogram patients' out-of-whack immune systems, including with a cancer treatment called CAR-T therapy. Read more. |
