A federal health inspection found that UCLA's locked psychiatric unit let a suicidal 71-year-old actor keep his leather belt and went unchecked for long stretches, failures his children now call fatal. Robert Carradine, the veteran actor best known for playing Hilary Duff's father on Disney's Lizzie McGuire, voluntarily checked himself into UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital […] The post Federal inspectors found UCLA psychiatric hospital failed to protect Robert Carradine before his death appeared first on American Almanac .
A federal health inspection found that UCLA's locked psychiatric unit let a suicidal 71-year-old actor keep his leather belt and went unchecked for long stretches, failures his children now call fatal. Robert Carradine, the veteran actor best known for playing Hilary Duff's father on Disney's Lizzie McGuire, voluntarily checked himself into UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital on January 16, 2026, because he was experiencing suicidal thoughts during what records describe as a "manic episode suicidal ideation." He had battled bipolar disorder, severe depression with psychotic features, and anxiety for roughly two decades. The next day, hospital staff found him unresponsive in his room after an apparent hanging involving a leather belt,…Open
A Long Island father of three spent five days in the hospital and waited five years for a diagnosis after contracting a rare tick-borne virus that has no treatment, no commercial test, and has already killed two Americans. Michael Larkin, 67, of Suffolk County, New York, became the state's first confirmed case of Bourbon virus […] The post New York confirms first case of Bourbon virus, a tick-borne illness with no cure appeared first on American Almanac .
A Long Island father of three spent five days in the hospital and waited five years for a diagnosis after contracting a rare tick-borne virus that has no treatment, no commercial test, and has already killed two Americans. Michael Larkin, 67, of Suffolk County, New York, became the state's first confirmed case of Bourbon virus after researchers at Stony Brook University identified the infection in April 2026, roughly five years after two lone star ticks bit him while he worked in his own yard. The diagnosis came only after a year-long antibody trial, and it raises a question public health officials should have been asking sooner: how many other cases across the Northeast are going undetected? Bourbon virus was first identified in 2014 in…Open
AI:The mainstream media's relentless focus on progressive policy shifts has left a trail of broken families and shattered lives in its wake. In this latest piece from the New York Times, a mother describes how the very legal frameworks intended to provide "protection" for those suffering from schizophrenia are effectively acting as a death sentence for her son. While leftist commentators demand more compassion and less institutionalization, the reality on the ground is a catastrophic failure of care that leaves vulnerable individuals abandoned to the streets or lost in a bureaucratic nightmare. The establishment's refusal to acknowledge the necessity of decisive intervention has created a vacuum where safety is discarded in favor of…Open