The courts finally have spoken: In Kansas, it’s no longer legal to harass a person by blasting him with secret electromagnetic energy weapons.
At least it’s no longer legal to do that to James Walbert of Wichita.
Mr. Walbert, a self-described inventor, asked…

If you need an x-ray, chances are your doctor can find some place where you can get it. But not if you need mental health care.
About two-thirds of primary care doctors have problems finding psychiatric treatment for at least some…

Sherri Cook gets a kiss from her son, Chance Roth.

“Columbus said the world is round?
Don’t you believe a word of that.
For I’ve been down to the edge of the world,
Sat on the edge where the wild wind whirled,
Peeked over the…

Tucked inside the economic bailout approved last week by Congress is a provision that will improve mental health care for millions of Americans. It’s long overdue.
Beginning in January, health insurance companies must offer equal coverage for mental and physical illness.…

Disturbing new evidence emerged last week that the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to provide shoddy mental health care for soldiers and Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lack of effective screening, delayed care and denied diagnoses add up to a…

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…

Here’s an advance look at one of the editorials that will appear in Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch and online at STLtoday.com/news/editorials.

DUELING BENEFITS

The word “schizophrenia” literally means “split mind.” That is, at best, an incomplete description of the disease. But it’s a strangely…