Fatima Stanford, MD, MPH exposes obesity health disparities, GLP-1 access hurdles, payer policy fixes, and how stigma in care ...

Glucagonlike peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications have taken over the national conversation around weight loss. From celebrity ...

Humor can make difficult topics easier to talk about, but it can also reinforce the stigma it seems to challenge.

What people see on screen can shape what they do off it. When actors such as James Dean and Marlon Brando lit cigarettes in ...

Being a teenager comes with its challenges, but when you live with epilepsy, it can be more difficult. Be kind to yourself, ...

Byzantine society held a deeply ambivalent view of those with disabilities, one shaped by both Christian charity and a sense ...

A charity shop has opened with the aim of reducing the stigma around food poverty and pledging to offer good food, dignity and choice.

aSchool of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Research Group in Eating, Corporalities and Culture (GPAC), University of São Paulo, Av. Dr. Arnaldo 715, São Paulo, SP, 01246-904, Brazil bSchool of ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable, curable disease but still impacts people in high-burden countries, who face challenges, including stigma, in accessing and engaging with healthcare services. The ...

In 2023, The National Association of People with AIDS created Zero HIV Stigma Day to be observed on July 21. The observance serves as a call to action, encouraging people to get tested, learn their ...

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. More than 55 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia, including an estimated 6.7 million adults living with Alzheimer’s ...

For many of the 60,000 Wichitans who do not seek or receive treatment for their mental illness each year, their fear is often the stigma that too much of society still ascribes to mental illness. Yet ...