The family of a 23 year-old man who escaped from an ambulance and later jumped from a nearby bridge to his death is suing the hospital and ambulance company for failing to prevent the tragedy.

Rebecca Juro remembers keeping her secret as far back as age 5. She felt different compared to other little boys in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood and, without anyone saying it, she understood being different was bad. “I knew my parents would not be excited to hear their son wanted to wear a dress,” she said.

In the past few decades religious leaders and communities of faith have shifted how they deal with suicide.

A family is suing AMR and Sharp Health for the death of their son.

At 26 years old, Brandon Nelson hospitalized and released to a residential mental health home in Southern California. He took his own life 24 hours after being admitted. His parents say Brandon’s death could have been prevented and that state regulators failed them.

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees are striking across California this week, amid an on-going labor dispute. Dozens of mental healthcare workers marched in front of the Kaiser Permanente in Kearny Mesa on Monday. Employees plan to strike for the next five days and told NBC 7 they want better care for their patients. Health professionals, like Jim Clifford, a therapist,…

Kaiser Permanente health care employees went on strike Monday in California, including in San Diego. NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado reports.

Aiming to make it easier for people to get help and to reduce the stigma associated with mental health, federal regulators are moving toward setting up a new three-digit number for people to reach a suicide prevention hotline. A law last year required the Federal Communications Commission to study assigning a three-digit number for suicide prevention. That study found evidence...

Mental health advocate and motivational Tedx speaker Megan Gallagher, shared strategies for parents and teens on how to manage anxiety going into a new school year.

Going back to school can be filled with excitement and optimism, but also anxiety over the unexpected. Motivational Tedx Speaker and author, Megan Galloway, shares her personal journey with anxiety and tips on how to prevent and deal with negative feelings. 

Happy Meals have been synonymous with fast food for decades, ever since McDonald’s first rolled out its kid-friendly concept in 1979. But let’s face it, it’s not easy to be happy all day, every day. Now, Burger King has come up with a new line of meal boxes that honor a full range of human emotions — from totally excited...

California paid at least $4 billion over four years in questionable Medi-Cal premiums and claims because it failed to follow up on eligibility discrepancies, according to an audit released Tuesday.

A 48-year-old developmentally disabled man was arrested Thursday in Pasadena on suspicion of harassing a 4-year-old girl who was found undressed in the play area of a Pasadena fast-food restaurant, police said.

Cyndi Lauper was homeless nearly a decade before she became a pop superstar in the early ’80s, and discussed that experience while unveiling a nationwide report on youth homelessness. The interactive report ranks how states provide services such as housing and mental health for homeless youth based on a variety of criteria, including access to hormone therapy for transgender people...

In a 10-hour shift, police officers see a lot more tragedy than what most people see in their lifetimes.

NBC 7 Rory Devine reports on a study that suggests officers are three times as likely to die of suicide than in the line of duty.

In his more than 25 years as a firefighter in Stamford, Connecticut, Capt. Jacques Roy thought he could handle anything – until the smoke cleared from a devastating fire that killed three children and their grandparents.

When Madalyn Parker wrote to her colleagues she needed to take a couple of days off to focus on her “mental health,” she was shocked by the response she received from the company’s CEO.

If the Republican health reform plan becomes law, states trying to save money on health insurance are likely to seek cuts on services like maternity care, mental health and dentist visits for kids, the Congressional Budget Office found Wednesday. NBC News reports that health care advocates find the lack of an “essential health benefits” coverage requirement in the bill, passed...

Do first responders come forward with their troubling memories? Do enough get help? Or do they just keep to themselves, rather than be thought of as weak?