For young patients, the hospital experience can be a frightening one. Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline has developed a new line of hospital gowns geared toward pediatric patients to help them feel more ...

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 ...

It's equal parts wardrobe malfunction and psychological assault, and it somehow manages to make even the healthiest among us feel fragile and exposed. But guess what? Researchers have dug deeper into ...

Curious why medical patient attire is so unflattering, a reader asks our fashion critic if it’s intentional. By Vanessa Friedman Why are hospital gowns always so awful? Is asking patients to wear ugly ...

Children at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital sported an alternative to hospital gowns during the first Hawkeye game of the season. Holly’s Heart, a nonprofit organization, ...

When Mona Rippy took her 7-year-old son for surgery, he was embarrassed to find that the only hospital gowns available were ones that exposed his backside. As Muslims, Rippy wanted an option for her ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Muslims around the world are observing the holy month of Ramadan, where they begin weeks of fasting from sunup to sundown. It's a month full of worship, spiritual growth and discipline.