Last spring she volunteered with students and faculty at New York City’s Parsons School of Design, where they created a line of hospital gowns for the health apparel company Care+Wear.

So far, patient response to the new hospital gown has been very positive, says Forbes, who hopes to license the design to an existing manufacturer so it can be produced and sold nationwide.

A medical company is trying to make hospital gowns less terrible — maybe even good. The company is called Care+Wear and it's currently testing out the new gowns at MedStar Montgomery in Olney, Md.

"Cleveland Clinic was very keen in us working with them on hospital gowns. We worked with their head nurses and combined need and design," the designer posted on Twitter in August. "We are very ...

Dr. David Oliver, a consultant in geriatrics and acute general medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in England, says the gown's terrible design, which opens in the back, is at the heart of the ...

High fashion comes to the ICU. Designer Diane von Furstenberg's working with the Cleveland Clinic to redo their hospital gown. It should be functional, attractive and not subject to accidental ...

hundreds of other young patients will have the chance to wear those words on a hospital gown, and remind themselves of their power daily. Tyler created the winning design for this year’s Design ...

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 ...