Deriving its name from coats worn by doctors, white coat syndrome describes a condition where a person's blood pressure rises ...

Doctors’ white coats became common in the late 19th century, but they’ve recently given rise to “white coat syndrome.” ...

It isn’t just white coats that can be problematic. The review also found that stethoscopes, phones and tablets can be contaminated with harmful bacteria.One study of orthopedic surgeons showed a ...

Most of what we have heard in the last few weeks about the recommendations of the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century has come from high-level administrators ...

About one-third of attending physicians and residents in a New York hospital said they wore their white coats for a week or more before washing them, a new survey found.. The survey, conducted at ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --Breaking with tradition, first-year residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital will no longer wear a shortened white coat.The coat was meant to symbolize that they were still learning ...

Normally considered a rite of passage for medical students, 30 students received their own white coats to symbolize all of their hard work in Central's Pre-Medical Magnet Program a spokesperson ...