HO The shimmer of hope that carried Cindy Mesaros through her medical ordeal came in whimsical pastels. When the San Francisco woman underwent an emergency cesarean section, narrowly saving her ...

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Traditional patient gowns range from uncomfortable to dehumanizing, past research shows. To improve patient experience, some health systems have rolled out redesigned gowns, according to the ...

Whether its blue or spotted or stripped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It’s embarrassing for just about anyone who’s spent a night in a medical center. But for modest ...

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 ...

DALY CITY, Calif. -- Another day, another massive collection of PPE just sitting outside, exposed to the elements. This time, more than half a million hospital gowns sit in the Seton Medical Center ...

Already busy making masks, Louis Vuitton is funneling more resources into producing medical gowns for frontline workers in Paris amid the Covid-19 crisis. The heritage French luxury brand is ...

The COVID-19 crisis has caused fashion and textile companies, including ones in Los Angeles, to refocus their businesses and align with a common goal: to address the urgent need for face masks and ...

FILE PHOTO: A surgery nurse puts on gloves before procedures on a patient with MRSA (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) ...

Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent and ongoing laboratory tests and may fall short of safety ...