Pregnancy is a challenging time when women must cope with rapid changes to their bodies. Yet, most pregnant women experience weight stigma, or shaming from others regarding their weight. Aside from ...

I categorize my life into two parts: the Before and the After. That shift happened in 2006 when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11. Still, as a dietitian with diabetes, I’ve experienced ...

An international effort aims to end diabetes stigma and discrimination in all its forms, including that experienced by people with the condition in clinical settings. The term diabetes "stigma" refers ...

People with type 2 diabetes experience stigma because of both their diabetes and their weight, according to a new study published in Clinical Diabetes by researchers at the UConn Rudd Center for Food ...

Pregnant women with substance use disorders endure a unique, intense and pervasive type of stigma from multiple levels of society – from family and friends to government officials to health care ...

Stigma affects all aspects of epilepsy care, from diagnosis and treatment to nationwide legislation and budget allocations. It affects the lives of people with epilepsy when they are not given equal ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) During lockdown, we saw how the pandemic was leading to new forms of social solidarity . In addition to claps for carers and rainbow pictures, the very act of staying home ...

The term “stigma” is used throughout this chapter and the report to represent the complex of attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and structures that interact at different levels of society (i.e., ...

This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on parental mental illness. The full guide looks at the impact of parental mental illness on children and ...