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 ...

BOISE, Idaho -- The mental lightbulb lit up in Dr. Brian Kerr's brain during a routine day at a Boise hospital. Registered nurse Carleen Egbert and anesthesiologist Kerr watched an older patient ...

Dearjohnnies also carries matching swaddling blankets for newborns, so they can shine in their first photos, too. Prices range from the $26 blankets to the $70 robes. Zinny said she has been receiving ...