Hospital gown – equal parts wardrobe malfunction and psychological assault – somehow managing to make even the healthiest among us feel fragile and exposed. But guess what? Researchers have decided to ...

Old hospital gowns are being turned into octopus shaped poles for intravenous (IV) drips, in the hope of cheering up child patients. Product designer Florence Mitchell came up with the idea for ...

Aim: To determine the microbial contamination by Gram-negative and Gram-positive opportunistic microbes of nurses' gowns and devices that hospital staff uses in order to assess the risk of ...