The housing affordability crisis will require more supply, more housing options and smarter mortgage policy to help bring ...

MADRID (AP) — In the days since the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, concern has taken hold ...

A beloved member of the family was notably absent at the annual Steve Irwin Gala in Las Vegas over the weekend.

In a new study, two professors are looking at bullying based on stigma -- where one is treated unfairly or unjustly due to one's race, sexual orientation, gender, or other characteristic -- and ...

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

Homes tied to murders, suicides, and violent crimes—what real-estate agents call “stigmatized properties”—can leave buyers ...

In season 1, episode 2 of the popular show "The Pitt," a Black woman with sickle cell disease arrives at the emergency department in acute pain, only to be initially dismissed as drug-seeking.

Scott Schieman is a professor in the department of sociology at the University of Toronto and author of the forthcoming book I Want M.O.R.E. - Why Your Job Still Matters. After years of an anti-work ...

There it was this morning, plain as day. It was a screenshot of a woman going off about how her food stamps were cut off, the $1,000 per month she and her family supposedly get from the government, ...

What Is Fatty Liver Stigma? A stigma is a negative belief about someone or something. Stigma is often related to something that makes people uncomfortable, such as poverty, or certain illnesses like ...

Many HIV-positive people are stigmatized and face discrimination in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. A region where infections and HIV-related deaths are on the rise. Yana Kolpakova from Vladivostok, ...

The London Assembly has asked Sadiq Khan to prevent prostitutes from facing ‘systematic stigmatisation’ Prostitute's cautions are a 'discriminatory' form of police reprimand, Sadiq Khan has been told ...