News tagged with financial mistreatment


Research finds America's elderly suffering abuse

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new study concludes that nearly 13 percent of America's aged citizens suffer some form of abuse. Specifically, nine percent of adults reported they have suffered from verbal mistreatment, 3.5 percent suffer financial mistreatment, ...


More than 10 percent of older Americans suffer mistreatment

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

About 13 percent of elderly Americans are mistreated, most commonly by someone who verbally mistreats or financially takes advantage of them, according to a University of Chicago study that is the first comprehensive look ...





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Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Medicine & Health / Health

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You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.


YouTube music label means all artists are with the bandwidth

Technology / Internet

created 7 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Craig Benzine had weathered almost 10 years with his band, Chicago-based indie rockers Driftless Pony Club -- self-releasing two albums along the way -- with no luck.


Nanotech treatment gets boost with GSK licensing agreement

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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(PhysOrg.com) -- GlaxoSmithKline and Ann Arbor-based NanoBio Corporation announced today that they have signed an exclusive over-the-counter licensing agreement for NanoBio’s unique nanoemulsion treatment for cold sores in ...


Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

When bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as ...


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Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'

Other Sciences / Other

created 11 hours ago | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...


Clinton: US would help raise billions on climate (AP)

Clinton: US would help raise billions on climate

Space & Earth / Environment

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to put new life into flagging U.N. climate talks Thursday by announcing the U.S. would join others in raising $100 billion a year by 2020 to help ...


Lawyers: Google execs not liable for abuse video

Technology / Internet

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Four Google executives should not be held responsible for a video posted online that showed teenagers abusing an autistic youth in Turin, their lawyers argued Wednesday in an Italian court.


Intel faces antitrust lawsuit from FTC (AP)

Intel hit with more antitrust charges in FTC suit

Technology / Business

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission piled on new antitrust charges against Intel Corp. on Wednesday, seeking to end what it described as a decade of illegal sales tactics that have crippled rivals and kept ...


New research may help to clean drainage from abandoned mines

New research may help to clean drainage from abandoned mines

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a quiet green glen near Ashville, Pa., lies a rust-colored pond. A deep, rectangular hole in the ground, it somewhat resembles an Olympic-sized pool. Few people, however, would make the ...


Adobe Systems posts 4Q loss, weighed by charges (AP)

Adobe Systems posts 4Q loss but says demand rising

Technology / Business

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday that although it booked a loss in the fiscal fourth quarter, consumer demand improved and allowed the maker of Photoshop and Flash software to post an optimistic outlook ...



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