The stigma of having alopecia causes more depression and anxiety than the disease itself, new research has found.

This post inaugurates a series of posts on stigma and community—written in collaboration with David Matthew Doyle, Ph.D.—throughout which we will clarify how the stigma associated with disease ...

In our opinion, at its core, rare disease-related stigma is based in ableism, which relies on the ideology of individualism, a hierarchy of what bodies are “best,” and the need for people to ...

Calling monkeypox a STI is inaccurate and can create other issues, experts say, like stigma. Experts suggest clear messaging around how monkeypox can spread to inform, not alarm.

Patients with Parkinson's disease already face poorer mental and physical health, but now a new study shows they also suffer from decreased levels of hope and self-esteem due to the stigma ...

Patty Mulcahy was 50 when she started hearing voices. She thinks society might have more compassion if people understood that schizophrenia is a brain disease that can be treated, and that the ...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a silent condition with limited symptoms in which excess fat accumulates in the liver. Taking the top spot for the most common liver disease globally, it is ...

Even though sickle cell disease is categorized as a rare disease, it’s one of the most common genetic disorders in the United States. It is often called “the forgotten disease” because, even though it ...

Many patients diagnosed with human monkeypox virus are facing a large amount of stigma associated with the disease, which must be eliminated, Jason Zucker, MD, an infectious diseases specialist at ...