HENDERSON – A Rusk County woman has been exonerated after facing false felony child medical abuse charges for nearly two years. Jessica Gasser, a mother of a then 2-year-old-toddler, has begun to ...

Early 2009 was a difficult time for the Fort Worth, Texas-based Ybarra family. Hope Ybarra, a mother of three, had been fighting a rare form of bone cancer for eight years. Now, the cancer had ...

What happens when the mother next door is someone from whom we should protect children? “The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy,” co-written by Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A lawsuit has been filed against Lehigh Valley Health Network and its doctors. The network is accused of misdiagnosing families with medical child abuse. In all of the cases, ...

FORT WORTH – The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office is seeking individuals who made financial donations to a North Texas mother accused of medical child abuse in what investigators are calling a ...

TORONTO — Be suspicious if a child with a severe dermatologic condition is unresponsive to treatment, especially if their parent or caregiver exhibits deceptive behavior. These could be red flags for ...

The medical condition is named after a fictional storyteller who in turn was based on a real-life German nobleman known for telling tall tales Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, the real Baron Münchhausen, ...

During a recent Polygon meeting, I realized something: I have no idea how to pronounce Balatro, the name of developer LocalThunk’s incredible roguelite poker game that’s occupied every one of my ...

Twelve families have filed a joint lawsuit against Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network, alleging the health system and its affiliates falsely accused them of medical child abuse. The ...

"I really did think it was me and my mom against the world. I thought she was my best friend," Jordyn Hope, a Munchausen by proxy advocate who was medically abused by their mother, told Business ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Lately, you’ve probably seen Gypsy Rose Blanchard all over magazine covers, daytime talk shows, and social media feeds. But she isn’t newly renowned ...

Munchausen by proxy is a rare mental disorder and can become a serious form of child abuse. Recently, the condition has gotten increased attention due to its connection to a major news story. Gypsy ...