About seven out of ten patients (69%) who suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) perceive some stigmatization in their daily life, according to a study led by a team of the University ...

BERLIN — As mysterious cases of a rare and ominously named virus began surfacing in Europe, Germany’s disease control center quickly told people to be on the lookout. In a May 19 alert, the agency ...

Misconceptions about trauma can be further isolating for survivors. Source: Jordy Meow/Unsplash Interpersonal trauma, or traumatic events that are inflicted by others (e.g. sexual assault, childhood ...

As a Black American, I always approach February’s annual celebration of Black History Month with pride and bewilderment. The reasons for the pride are obvious. The accomplishments of Americans of ...

People struggling with mental illness, from the mildest and most routine to the intractable and utterly devastating, are also burdened by the stereotypes and prejudices of stigmatization. The stigma ...

Back in the late 1990s, Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer and Dr. Marcia Angell, both former editors-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an editorial in the journal about the “dark side to ...

The stigmatization of mental illness is well-documented, and many of us witness it on a daily basis, even if we don’t realize it. But with more than one in five adults suffering from mental health ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine sex differences in children's weight-based stigmatization. DESIGN: School-based sample of children evaluating qualities of children of varying weights. SUBJECTS: Thirty-four ...

Bogota, Colombia — Information manipulation and misinformation are not new phenomena, but they have taken on exaggerated importance, especially with the massive use of social media. Hostile and ...

Valerie A. Lapointe receives funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) and the Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH). She is affiliated with the ...