"Black Lives Matter" street sign near the White house in 2020 after the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis that Memorial Day ignited nationwide protests against police brutality. Following a ...

For decades, the term "excited delirium" has been erroneously used as a catch-all medical diagnosis for people who have died in police custody, despite having no legitimate scientific roots, a new ...

The American College of Emergency Physicians took a stand against the diagnosis of excited delirium, which is often used to justify deaths within custody. Most people have never heard the term ...

The study covered in this summary was published on medrxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Inteleukin-6 (IL-6) can be used as a predictive biomarker for delirium in perioperative ...

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 ...

Virginia Helton says her husband is a "brilliant" man. He's a scientist who can explain complex chemistry and physics. But when he was in the hospital last February, she didn't recognize the man ...

Delirium is a serious but often treatable condition that can happen suddenly to someone who is unwell. It’s much more common in older people, especially those with dementia. Delirium is a change in a ...

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human-rights activist hailed ...