Psychiatrist

News4’s Eun Yang gets tips from Dr. Joshua Weiner about how to talk to kids about school shootings.

A jury will determine if gunman Jarrod Ramos will go to jail or a maximum security mental health facility. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

According to psychiatrist Joshua Weiner, “The happier you are the more successful you feel in life.” News4’s Aaron Gilchrist talks with Weiner about how to achieve that kind of holistic success.

A man accused of fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, in an act of vengeance is guilty of capital murder, a jury in Houston decided Thursday.

A Virginia businessman accused of taking thousands of dollars from customers but failing to deliver medical equipment pleaded guilty to charges in Maryland and Virginia.

A woman deemed unfit for trial in the deaths of her two children has been prescribed new medication, according to prosecutors in Maryland.

A psychiatrist retained by Maryland prosecutors has concluded that a woman accused of killing two of her children remains mentally unfit for trial nearly five years after the young children went missing.

Dr. Joshua Weiner said parents should speak with both male and female children about sexual assault before they head to college. News4’s Jummy Olabanji reports.

Five years after two young children disappeared, their mother is considered incompetent to stand trial for murder. Mark Segraves reports a judge ordered her to undergo a new mental evaluation.

It remains the most widely used anesthetic in U.S. hospitals, but many patients still remember propofol as the drug that killed Michael Jackson. Most are no longer afraid of it, doctors say, though many still ask if they will get “the Michael Jackson drug” before an operation. And most of them will. Jackson died 10 years ago at his Los...

Moments after a North Carolina man pleaded guilty to gunning down three Muslim university students, a prosecutor played a cellphone video of the slayings in court Wednesday as one of the victims’ relatives fainted, others wept and a man cursed the confessed killer openly. Craig Stephen Hicks, 50, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder more than four years...

Some people like to be late to the airport, and NBC4 Reporter Adam Tuss is one of them.

Ketamine was once famous as an abused party drug. Now, it is being administered to patients with depression, providing them with relief within hours.

The party drug ketamine, with the street name Special K, is giving hope to people suffering from severe depression.

A Virginia businessman accused of taking thousands of dollars from customers but failing to deliver medical equipment to them is facing more charges.

Five years after Colorado first legalized marijuana, a new study shows pot’s bad effects are sending more people to the emergency room. Inhaled marijuana caused the most severe problems at one large Denver area hospital. Marijuana-infused foods and candies, called edibles, also led to trouble. Patients came to the ER with symptoms such as repeated vomiting, racing hearts and psychotic...

A Virginia business owner accused of taking thousands of dollars from customers but never delivering the medical equipment they ordered already faces six felony charges in the commonwealth, but now a Maryland woman says the same thing happened to her.

A local woman is calling on a change to a Virginia hospital’s hospice policy after she says her late husband had to suffer through an agonizing video call during the final hours of his life. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

A local woman is calling on a change to a Virginia hospital’s hospice policy after she says her late husband had to suffer through an agonizing video call during the final hours of his life.