Brooks Walsh hadn’t questioned whether “excited delirium syndrome” was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in ...

California has enacted a first-of-its-kind law banning the medical and legal use of “excited delirium,” a term often cited as a cause of death that many experts believe is racially motivated and used ...

A leading group of medical experts says the term “excited delirium” should not be listed as a cause of death. Critics have said the term has been used to justify excessive force by police. The ...

Doctors use “diagnostic” labels to describe a condition or constellation of symptoms and signs before determining treatment or rendering a prognosis. Diagnostic criteria generally remain static and ...

A national organisation of coroners is the latest to denounce “excited delirium,” a fictitious medical condition often cited as a cause of death by police in instances of violence from officers ...

(CNN) — An emergency physicians group is disavowing "excited delirium," a controversial term that some police officers, clinicians, medical examiners and court experts have used to explain how an ...

Loan Ngyuen tries her best to steer her nine-year-old son from logging on to Google and typing in his last name. She knows what he will find. He will find articles about his dad, a lot of them. The ...

In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer ...

Although urinary tract infections (UTIs) are typically minor—albeit painful—health issues for most people, they can pose ...