Arianna “Ari” Dougan loved the book “Fancy Nancy,” about a girl who loves to dress up fancy, “just like Ari,” her mother, Lori Zucker, said.  When they would read it, Ari would always ask to skip over the page where Nancy takes her family...

As I write this, President Barack Obama is signing his last major bill into law, a $6.3 billion medical research bill devoted to cancer and other diseases. Attached to the legislation is a strategy to take on the nation’s mental health crisis. The...