Medicaid-insured kids with anorexia hospitalized for medical stabilization remain in hospital longer than peers with private insurance despite similar illness severity, according to a study from Ann & ...

New guidance to help identify people with eating disorders so they can be treated earlier has been published, after figures showed that hospital admissions for the disease increased by 84% in the last ...

Eating disorders affect more than 5% of young people, and they have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. Young patients with public health insurance have a much harder time ...

FoI request reveals some people sent home despite BMIs below 15 – considered to be ‘severe malnutrition’ ...

Adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa is associated with significantly lower likelihood of full-time employment over a 30-year period, higher long-term health care utilization, and increased reliance on ...

There has been a “progressive increase” in hospital admission rates for children and adults with eating disorders over a five-year period.

Finally, when a relapse in 2018 left me near cardiac and kidney failure, I checked myself into an eating disorders hospital. There, I learned I was one among millions of people who fall into a ...

Treatment is hard. A lot of facilities feel sterile and hospital-like. We wanted to create something that feels more ...