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

A Texas mom accused of medical child abuse in an alleged Munchausen by proxy case will face no jail time after a decision by ...

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 ...

DALLAS, Texas (KLTV) - A Tatum woman accused of faking her child’s illness has been exonerated following a grand jury ...

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.

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.

The above list of behaviors have been cited as indicators of a parent who might be suffering from Munchausen by Proxy, a syndrome identified in the 1970s in which a parent who creates a disease ...

In 1977, a groundbreaking medical case brought Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA) to light, highlighting a caregiver's role in fabricating illnesses in dependents. This revelation has ...

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 ...

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.

The Politician tells the story of a wildly ambitious teenager with designs on becoming president one day. But within that narrative is also a take on pop culture’s recent Munchausen by proxy ...