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Nursing home residents can be at risk, but so are people living at home with a spouse or adult children. Abuse of older people, which can take the form of sexual or emotional abuse, physical violence and financial manipulation, affects…

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and ROBERT GEBELOFF On Page 5 of a credit card contract used by American Express, beneath an explainer on interest rates and late fees, past the details about annual membership, is a clause that most customers probably miss. If cardholders have…

RIVERHEAD - A former top administrator at a Medford nursing home admitted Friday to covering up the death of a woman at the facility. In 2012, 72-year-old Aurelia Rios died after prosecutors say workers at Medford Multicare Center ignored several…

Did you know the fine print in many nursing home admissions contracts deprives residents of their constitutional rights, making their stay more dangerous? Anyone who has been through the admissions process knows how incredibly stressful it can be. Unfortunately, many…

Syracuse, N.Y. -- A nurse has pleaded guilty to covering up sexual abuse and neglect at a nursing home in Herkimer County. The guilty plea by Nicolle Wagner-Stinson, former director of Mohawk Valley Health Care Center in Ilion, to two…

Heroes Step Up to Protect the Health, Safety of All Americans Motivated by tragic circumstances in their own lives and a passion to help others, our nominees for the 2015 Justice Served Awards have stepped up to make our nation…

Relaxed State, Local Laws Part of the Problem Start your engines! Summer is here, and the longer, warmer days bring plenty of opportunity for ATV off-road recreation. As the popularity of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) has risen to an all-time high,…

FAR ROCKAWAY, NY (WABC) --Three workers at a Queens nursing home were arrested for allegedly abusing patients. Authorities say the abuse happened at the Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway. Two nurses and a…

Nurses Abuse Patient at Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Queens A trio of medical professionals allegedly abused a disabled patient at a Queens nursing home and neglected to treat him as he lay on the floor bleeding from his…