During a nine-minute 911 call, Paradise Valley Community College psychology professor Michael Todd calmly told a dispatcher that Andria Ziegler did cocaine and drank 17 beers at his home hours before she died.

Researchers at the University of Arizona report they've found precious little credible research that shows marijuana is effective in treating post-traumatic stress disorder.

Many prospective employers seem to be scared of the risks of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veterans in the civilian workplace, according to a think tank composed of business, military and health leaders.

Drug-company executives are salivating at prospects for big profits from a more pervasively stoned America. Their friends, the psychiatrists, plan expanded diagnoses of clinical depression to include grief resulting from loves ones' deaths. If approved, this recommendation would expand the already excessive American dependence on psychotropic drugs.

Drug-company executives are salivating at prospects for big profits from a more pervasively stoned America. Their friends, the psychiatrists, plan expanded diagnoses of clinical depression to include grief resulting from loves ones' deaths. If approved, this recommendation would expand the already excessive American dependence on psychotropic drugs.

Phoenix police are investigating the death of a Paradise Valley Community College student who was found by paramedics in a comatose state inside her psychology professor’s condominium on Sunday.

Once again it happens with sickening suddenness — a jolting shock that alters and cruelly mocks our assumption of “normalcy.”

When 14-year-old Jeremy Barragan was killed in his home on the night of Feb. 13, an immediate flurry of media coverage unveiled the unusual circumstances of his death.

ST. POELTEN, Austria - Josef Fritzl abruptly pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him — a surprising twist amid disclosures that the daughter he imprisoned for 24 years in a dungeon where she bore him seven children secretly sat in on the trial.

A prosecutor in Jodi Arias' murder trial is targeting a defense expert's credibility and the psychologist's diagnoses that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

It’s been a lifelong dream of Kami Cothrun to help children with autism.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the No. 1 cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. The top risk factors: hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity and smoking, are poorly treated, oftentimes with pharmaceutical drugs. 

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the No. 1 cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. The top risk factors: hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity and smoking, are poorly treated, oftentimes with pharmaceutical drugs. 

Google Dave Feinman. Go ahead. Really. He wants you to. Type his name as one word and you will soon know a lot about him — through his home page and blog on MySpace and the Web site that bears his name.

Ten-year-old Kalie Blackwell doesn’t exactly understand what triglycerides or cholesterol are, but she knows that her numbers are high and that to get them down she needs to lose weight.