Three new studies suggest that nearly 30 percent of people diagnosed with epilepsy actually have psychological events, or "psychogenic" seizures.

In true epileptic seizures patients opened their eyes during a seizure, while people having psychogenic seizures closed them

The American Medical Association revises its ethical guidelines to forbid doctors from engaging in torture or "coercive" interrogations of prisoners.

Reuters reports that Monday's vote was prompted by allegations that physicians or psychiatrists participated in harsh interrogations at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

In a public health emergency, suspected victims would no longer have to give permission before experimental tests could be run to determine why they're sick, under a Federal rule published Wednesday.

Privacy experts called this exception unnecessary, making way for abuse and an override of state informed-consent laws

According to a new survey, about 17% of the students at two Ivy League schools stated that they have purposely injured themselves.

According to psychologists, it is a disturbing phenomenon that they are hearing more often recently

A U.S. government survey has revealed America's elderly population is facing a growing drug addiction problem. The survey shows that adults aged 50 and above with substance abuse problems will double to 5 million by 2020.

In 1999, 2.5 million Americans above 50 suffered from drug addiction