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One school shocks students with disabilities. The FDA is moving to ban the practice.
A version of this report for NPR Morning Edition originally aired on WGBH News in Boston. Luigi Disisto is a 47-year-old autistic man who lives at a… -
New data, with gaps, show hundreds of thousands of elder abuse cases
Across the United States, solitude has become a deadly threat for hundreds of thousands of senior citizens living at home. Last year alone, state adult… -
The high cost of seriously ill inmates
Raymond Wallace is likely one of the most expensive county jail inmates in Massachusetts ever. The 41-year-old detainee has been awaiting trial and held… -
Explosion of drug-dependent infants reveals weakness in Mass. child protection
Mya Barry's brief life and untimely death point to weaknesses in a social services system that is struggling to deal with the region’s booming addiction to prescription and illegal drugs — a plague that has besieged hospitals with drug-exposed newborns and overwhelmed state social workers for the past five years. -
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Sandro Galea is Dean and the Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Galea is one of the most widely-cited scholars in the social sciences. He has written extensively about the social causes of health, mental health, and trauma, especially the impacts related to mass trauma and conflict worldwide. He worked in Somalia with Doctors Without Borders before attending graduate school in the United States. Dr. Galea has served on the boards of prominent public health organizations, and he is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. -
Embattled Mental Health Provider Faces New Fine From OSHA
The federal agency that monitors workplace dangers has issued a $207,000 fine against a private psychiatric hospital in Lowell for failing to protect its… -
Pembroke Hospital cuts psychiatric beds after staffing criticism
A for-profit psychiatric hospital that’s faced repeated criticism has reduced its patient capacity by more than a third. -
Renovation boom revives a deadly demon for Massachusetts workers
Thousands of workers are routinely exposed to danger asbestos without adequate safety protections. The gap between regulation and on-the-ground conditions at job sites can lead to incurable cancer. -
OSHA launches four more investigations at Arbour psychiatric hospitals
The federal agency that monitors workplace dangers has launched investigations into four Boston-area psychiatric hospitals owned by the largest private… -
Loopholes in national railroad policy take communities by surprise
Click here to read this story backed up by primary documents. GRAFTON, Mass. — In early 2012, residents of this sleepy town began to notice an unusual…
