Mental illness strikes with a two-edged sword. On one side is the harmful effects of symptoms and disabilities that prevent people from achieving personal goals. On the other is the egregious effects ...

Adapting Yoga Therapy to Meet the Needs of Inpatients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Insights From an International, Multisite, Qualitative Study A total of 213 participants were ...

For Kathy Wilcox, the bullying began in fifth grade. The school seemed to blame her for her classmates’ taunts. “I remember the guidance counselor telling my parents that I should take it as ...

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight-loss surgery. Researchers found that patients who ...

I write this from a northern suburb of Chicago as I finish my third week of lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus. Our governor has ordered another 30 days of shelter in place. The experience ...

A new article published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers underscores the profound role that stigma can play in health care -- and how addressing stigma-related barriers can significantly improve ...

You did it to yourself.” This is one of the things that patients who are diagnosed with COPD often hear because of the stigma ...

Perceptions of Value in Cancer Care Across Distinct Health Systems: A Comparison of Providers in High- and Low- and Middle-Income Countries Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Kenya, ...

Weight-loss surgery reduces weight stigma for most patients. Lower weight stigma, but not lower BMI, is linked to better mental health. Continuing to experience weight stigma raises the risk of mental ...