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 ...

The arrival of reinvented hospital gowns is creating quite the stir at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in Minnesota after a the system decided to ditch the hated, backside-baring gowns for a newer ...

FREEHOLD, New Jersey -- A family in New Jersey is being recognized for their charitable work -- sewing cheerful and colorful hospital gowns for children across the world -- and surprised with a trip ...

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 ...

In an issue dedicated to the current fixation on improving everything, The New York Times Magazine explores a redesign of the hospital gown. “There was — and is — always room for improvement. The ...

Kevin Collins Jr.'s hospital gown was found near railroad tracks, but searches by ground and air have yielded no other clues.