SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - KY3’s Jackie Garrity and podcaster Nancy Simpson look at a five-decade-old Missouri case where a woman is accused of poisoning her family and others. To report a correction or ...

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 ...

A therapist warned the state’s child welfare and protection agency that a Clearwater mother might be suffering from ...

Medpage Today: Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and an adjunct professor at the School of Law, discussed the misconceptions of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, ...

There are no clear data on how prevalent this condition is.

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 ...

TRINITY, Texas (KTRE) — A Trinity ISD teacher has been arrested and placed on administrative leave after he and his wife were arrested in a Munchausen-by-proxy case. Jon Thomas Holcomb, 51, of Trinity ...

The Texas Legislature has countless things on its plate, but one issue that arises occasionally in the headlines and in popular culture deserves attention in this session after years of foot-dragging.

Factitious disorder, previously referred to as Munchausen syndrome, is a condition in which an individual deceives others by appearing ill, impaired, or injured. This can involve faking, purposely ...