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People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister
Mel Stride says therapy or respite could be offered instead of Pip payments to those with...
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Those signed off feeling depressed classed as incapable of work, says Stride
Work and pensions secretary attacks system of dealing with minor mental health problems as PM takes...
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Thousands to be offered blood tests for dementia in UK trial
More than 50 clinics will offer tests to about 5,000 people who are worried about their...
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Mental illness costs England £300bn a year, study shows
Yearly cost to people, business and public sector found to be twice as big as NHS...
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‘A talented, goofy kid’: family of Ryan Gainer, autistic teen killed by police, speak out
Shooting of 15-year-old ‘beautiful soul’ in California revives scrutiny on law enforcement abuse of youth with...
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Victoria to limit WorkCover compensation for stress after deal struck with opposition
Workers receiving payments beyond two-and-a-half years to undergo another impairment test under changes expected to pass...
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Family of young Indigenous woman who took her own life in Melbourne hospital call for investigation
Makalie Watts-Owens, a 24-year-old Tagalaka, Kukatja and Worimi woman, voluntarily admitted herself to St Vincent’s before...
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UK homeowners with mental health problems ‘spend less on essentials to pay mortgage’
Charity set up by Martin Lewis says up to 1.3m people forced to cut back on...
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‘You don’t feel alive’: Ukraine veterans struggling with the trauma of war
The country has been fighting since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and many people are battling...
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NSW police fail to deliver mental health crisis review amid scrutiny over latest shooting death
Exclusive: Review ordered by police commissioner Karen Webb after string of fatalities last year is more...
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Thousands of mental health patients readmitted within a month in England
Experts say being discharged prematurely can be ‘disastrous’, setting back chances of full recoveryThousands of patients...
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Evidence grows of air pollution link with dementia and stroke risk
Long-term UK study adds to body of research associating pollutants with declining brain health UK researchers...