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Hidden camera footage shows worker taunting 85-year-old woman with rags smeared with her feces; another worker repeatedly wrestling and hitting her; and another wiping his nose on her clean sheets.

A recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll found that bus drivers and nurses were more likely to be obese when compared to other professions. The sample consisted of 138,438 people ages 18 and over. It found that 36.4 percent of transport workers were obese.

I wrote in Sunday’s Globe about nine trauma nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who played a very private but critical role in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing: They cared for gravely wounded suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a heavily-guarded ICU, nursing him back to health.

A psychiatrist, who works with some of the most dangerous prisoners in the country, teared up Tuesday as she testified about watching video of prison staff injecting a troubled inmate with medication over her objections.

The incidence of PE in Canada has increased significantly due to the widespread availability and sensitivity of equipment used to diagnose this illness.

VANCOUVER | An acupuncturist in the Vancouver area who billed for 461 patients in one day is facing heat from his regulatory college.