I have read many books on the changing tide of the public's relationship with vaccines, particularly around childhood ...

Fifty years ago this month, the legacy of Willowbrook State School sparked the National Disability Rights Movement. During the 1970s, journalists exposed the horrific treatment of children and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– More than fifty years ago, the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island was exposed for its horrific treatment of those with developmental disabilities by investigative ...

In 1972, 29-year-old journalist Geraldo Rivera filmed an expose revealing the atrocities inside Willowbrook School, a state-supported ... including an 11-year study of youths with disabilities ...

Geraldo Rivera, with help from disgusted facility doctors, smuggled himself and a cameraman under the fence of the Willowbrook State School. Not a psychiatric ... and Mental Health Services ...

Suffolk County’s plan has been deemed as the most comprehensive Police Reform plan in New York State ... who previously resided in the Willowbrook State School. Today, IGHL operates more ...

1946–47), Tuskegee (for the US Public Health Service Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, 1932–72), and Willowbrook (for the Hepatitis Studies at the Willowbrook State School for ...

At age 95, Nehrbauer — who is known for her role in fighting to get the infamous Willowbrook State School for disabled children and adults shut down — received the award amid a large ...