psychiatric medicine

Health & Safety

For kids in crisis, it's getting harder to find long-term residential treatment

5:00am November 16, 2023

by Aaron Bolton, MTPR

A Montana treatment center is one of two places in the U.S. offering long-term residential behavioral treatment for kids as young as 4. Now, administrators say it might have to close.

Myriad Genetics is among a handful of companies that make a genetic test to help doctors choose psychiatric medicines for patients. Evidence that the tests are effective has been called "inconclusive."

Health & Safety

DNA Tests For Psychiatric Drugs Are Controversial But Some Insurers Are Covering Them

4:29pm October 17, 2019

by Graison Dangor

Finding the right medication to treat mental health problems can be a frustrating trial-and-error process. New genetic tests aim to match meds to patients more effectively, but do they really work?