Mental health services and community-based services, such as personal care attendants, are unavailable to many American Indians in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, according to report recently released by the Native American Disability Law Center, Indian Country Today reports.
Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLDA), a leader in the development of targeted therapeutics and predictive tests from its growing portfolio of proprietary genetic biomarkers, announced that it has initiated the second of its two pivotal trials of Vilazodone, the Company's novel drug candidate for the treatment of depression. This double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial is designed to assess the efficacy and safety of Vilazodone.
The House on Wednesday by a 268-148 vote passed a bill (HR 1424) that would require most health insurers to provide equal levels of coverage for physical and mental illnesses, the AP/Contra Costa Times reports (Miga, AP/Contra Costa Times, 3/6).