Mental Health

Latest California Healthline Stories

Docs Worry There’s ‘Nowhere To Send’ New And Expectant Moms With Depression

California’s legislature will soon take up a bill that would require doctors to screen pregnant women and new mothers for mental health problems. Many doctors oppose the idea, and laws elsewhere haven’t increased the number of moms treated.

California’s Tax On Millionaires Yields Big Benefits For People With Mental Illness, Study Finds

The research, focused on Los Angeles County, casts a positive light on a 2004 initiative that expanded mental health services statewide. A recent state audit, however, suggested hundreds of millions of dollars from the initiative were piling up, left unspent by counties.