A Rusk County woman has been exonerated after facing false felony child medical abuse charges for nearly two years. Jessica ...

Whether fictional or fact-based, Munchausen syndrome by proxy grips the public. Media depictions in The Sixth Sense and Sharp Objects and real-life news coverage of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s ...

Bench trial in Rockford-area alleged Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy case started in October but has been on hold for several months.

Parents told ABC6 that Dr. Esernio-Jenssen diagnosed them with Munchausen syndrome by proxy — a condition by which a caretaker fabricates symptoms to make a child appear sick, or causes them to ...

Tall tales and illness-induction. The term Munchausen’s Syndrome was coined in 1951 (Filho et al., 2017) to recognize as an extreme form of factitious disorder.

Although investigators suspect that Dee Dee had Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy and that Gypsy never actually had the conditions Dee Dee claimed she did, some social media users are claiming otherwise.

Jessica Lange and Zoey Deutch explain the inspiration behind their characters, and Lange tells THR she might be done with television for good. By Jean Bentley The Politician tells the story of a ...

Some question whether Munchausen syndrome by proxy is real. Oct. 26, 2008 — -- When Julie Gregory thinks about her childhood, it's always the doctors' visits that come to mind. "We had ...

Investigators are calling it a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. A mother in Texas is facing nine felony charges for alleged medical abuse involving her 15-year-old daughter.

The attorney said the mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which parents or caregivers seek sympathy through the exaggerated or made-up illnesses of their children.