What is it like to be one of the millions of children hospitalized in the U.S. every year? Ask any parent of a seriously ill child and they will explain that it's beyond traumatizing. One California ...

While patient hospital gowns serve a number of practical purposes, the psychological effects of donning them may be more harmful than good, a physician argues in an opinion piece in The New York Times ...

(CNN) — Whether a patient is in the hospital for an organ transplant, an appendectomy or to have a baby, one complaint is common: the gown. You know the one. It might as well have been stitched ...

Part of John Kasun’s recent article in the Altoona Mirror about decency with regard to hospital gowns struck a longstanding grievance with me. For the past 60-plus years, I have felt that a person who ...

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) -- Fighting brain cancer, little Giada Demma was lying in her pediatric hospital bed, her tiny body virtually swimming in a drab green hospital gown. Her cousin, Giuliana Demma, ...