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 ...

Marquisa Allen allegedly stole an ambulance after noticing EMS workers left it unmanned outside a hospital. Port St. Lucie Police Department Talk about a sick ride. A Florida hospital patient still in ...

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 ...

A hospital patient is wanted in Virginia after he walked out of his treatment and stole an ambulance while still wearing a hospital gown and with an IV still in his arm on Monday, authorities said.

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 ...

A new study has found patients forced to wear gowns feel more vulnerable and powerless in hospitals than those allowed to wear their normal clothes. Researchers at the University of Auckland took 74 ...

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, ...

Patients generally don't need permission to wear their own gowns, but have to make their own laundry arrangements once they've stepped outside the hospital garment system. Though companies like ...

(CNN) — As a nurse for nearly 30 years at Jackson Health System in Miami, Oliver Castellanos has noticed that many of his patients are homeless. Far too often he says he's seen homeless patients ...