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 ...

But according to Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber’s new book, “ The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy ” (St. Martin’s Press, out Feb. 4), none of this was true.

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 ...

It's time for the term Munchausen by proxy to die a timely death in terms of its use in medical child abuse allegations and for investigators to focus on the impact on the child rather than the ...

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.

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 ...

Her actions led to the doctors placing an unneeded feeding tube in her daughter, authorities said. Investigators are calling it a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, where a child's caretaker ...

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.

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

Digital Producer Marcela Camargo spent months doing interviews and researching for story about a Jacksonville mother who says she was falsely accused of Munchausen syndrome by proxy and had her 16 ...