Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country

Over the past five years, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America. Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients...

Monkeypox

Since mid-May, cases of monkeypox have been reported from several countries that are non-endemic for this rare disease, including the United States. Several cases have been reported in California, including in Sacramento County. Sacramento County Public Health continues to work on identifying and monitoring...

National Autism Indicators Report: The Intersection of Autism, Health, Poverty and Racial Inequity

In the year (2020) about 5 percent of four-year-old kids in California received an Autism diagnosis, which is concerning compared to the CDC’s average of 2.2 percent for the same age group nationwide. Research has been actively exploring the reasons for and impacts of...

To unravel autism’s mysteries, one neuroscientist looks at the developing brain

As the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder increases, so too has research on the complex and poorly understood disorder. With powerful genetic tools, advanced brain-imaging methods and large groups of children to study, the field is poised to make big contributions...