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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.