U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd proposed legislation Wednesday to prevent a growing problem in public schools nationwide – the increasing use of restraints on troubled children. Dodd and Rep. George Miller ...

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — You expect the unexpected when you adopt eight kids. "Loud, active, messy, sticky, stinky," Ray and Lori Carter said describing their family dynamic. But the Carters said they ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Point 4 of this article has been modified from its original version to clarify speakers’ comments. Since passage of healthcare reforms in OBRA 1987, the incidence rate of resident ...

A new study from Duke-NUS Medical School has highlighted the widespread use of physical restraints among caregivers of older adults with advanced dementia living at home, revealing a need for better ...

Lawyers say physical restraints have been used on young people inside the Don Dale and Alice Springs youth detention centres after changes were rushed through Northern Territory Parliament last week.

U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd on Wednesday proposed legislation to prevent a growing problem in public schools nationwide: the increasing use of restraints on problematic children. Dodd and Rep. George ...

Physical restraints in emergency departments (EDs) are used to keep staff and patients safe, but may lead to adverse physical consequences, such as aspiration, physical trauma and phycological harm of ...

Researchers are calling for a wider debate around the use of physical restraints in aged-care homes after finding they have caused five deaths over 13 years. Five people died over a 13 year period in ...

In April 2015, Justin Sangiuliano, a seventeen-year-old diagnosed with Autism, was physically restrained at his group home in Oshawa, Canada. To control an aggressive outburst, two staff members ...