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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.