http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The howling winds and rising waters of Superstorm Sandy may have sparked at least one unintended flood: A race by seniors to find safe housing in assisted-living facilities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-sandy-prompts-elderly.html Health Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:28:51 EST news276755322 (AP)—A nursing home and an assisted living facility in New York are under scrutiny after The Associated Press disclosed that hundreds of elderly and disabled people forced to evacuate by Superstorm Sandy were still sleeping on cots in cramped and sometimes oppressive conditions two months later. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-ny-homes-elderly-scrutiny-sandy.html Health Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:56:14 EST news276540969 (AP)—The evacuation of some 320 patients during the catastrophic October storm known as Sandy was just the beginning for NYU Langone Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-shuttered-sandy-nyc-hospital-partly.html Other Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:44:54 EST news275838287 (AP)—Hundreds of elderly and disabled who were hurriedly evacuated from New York City's seaside nursing homes and assisted living residences after Superstorm Sandy are still in a grim limbo two months later, sleeping on cots in temporary quarters without such comforts as private bathrooms or even regular changes of clothes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-grim-limbo-storm-nursing-home.html Health Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:44:22 EST news275755455 A group of doctors and nurses protested outside New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office Friday to ask for more help in rebuilding the city's healthcare system in the wake of superstorm Sandy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-york-doctors-protest-post-sandy.html Health Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:48:49 EST news272296124 (AP)—One of two New York hospitals that had to evacuate patients at the height of Superstorm Sandy is set to begin reopening. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ny-hospital-evacuated-storm-reopen.html Health Sat, 03 Nov 2012 05:50:01 EST news271139641