Nursing homes misuse antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients, disguise practice as schizophrenia treatment, watchdog finds.

For nearly three decades, Jeffrey Deren, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Orlando (Fla.) Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute, has treated the same quiet complication of hand injuries: the splint that was ...

One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...

WCVB NEWSCENTER 5. SARA. THANK YOU. FIVE INVESTIGATES BRITTANY JOHNSTON HAS BEEN DIGGING INTO HOW RESTRAINTS ARE USED IN MASSACHUSETTS AND HOW DANGEROUS THEY CAN BE. BRITTANY MARIA. STUDENTS ARE ...

The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he ...

According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA), as many as 5 million older Americans are abused each year, and many of them live in nursing homes. Nursing homes use restraints with the intention to ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

Sylvia Taylor-Stein led the drive against chemical restraints. She was inspired by her grandmother who had Alzheimer's. Long-term care watchdog Sylvia Taylor-Stein remembers visiting activity rooms in ...

A grand jury met Wednesday. Indictments address current and former jail personnel as well as people who worked in nursing there. Key detail in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl outfit raises questions — ...

For the second time in just over three months, an inmate has escaped custody at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Surveillance footage shows 20-year-old John Nino "appears to have removed his ...

The Guardians announced Sunday that DeLauter has been held out of the Triple-A Columbus lineup since Friday due to a right wrist soreness, Tommy Wild of SI.com reports. According to Wild, DeLauter had ...