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Congratulations to Sandy Banks for highlighting, in her May 6 column, the tragedy that occurs when people with mental illness do not receive treatment.
May 21, 2001
Thank you, Shawn Hubler, for spreading the word that psychiatric illness is in truth a medical illness and is treatable (July 12).
July 19, 1999
Booster Shots
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Sept. 10, 2009
Opinion
One-third of criminal defendants who come through my courtroom have been found to have a mental illness. Instead of incarceration, they need treatment.
May 20, 2022
World & Nation
Health: Scotland, Ireland and England report 59 cases that began with swelling, redness at injection site. Thirty deaths have occurred despite antibiotic treatment.
June 9, 2000
Florence E., 31, is a diagnosed borderline personality with a history of depression, self-mutilation and cocaine abuse.
May 9, 1995
California
Watermelons were ordered pulled from grocery bins across the state, and Californians were asked not to eat melons they had already purchased when reports surfaced Thursday that at least 18 people suffered sudden illnesses after ingesting the popular summertime fruit.
July 5, 1985
In L.A., mentally ill people are cycled through what police, mental health officials and advocates agree is a revolving door of temporary psychiatric units and jail wards, never getting the long-term care they need.
Nov. 18, 2021
Science & Medicine
Dennis David saw every doctor he could think of: general practitioners, immunologists, gastroenterologists.
Nov. 2, 1993
At 68, Helen Freeman has more chronic diseases than many of us will face in a lifetime.
Feb. 19, 2001