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 ...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is a free woman. The child abuse victim who in 2016 was sentenced for her involvement in her mother's murder was released from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, ...
April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month, and it got me wondering how aware practitioners are of atypical child abuse. I recently came across the mere second clear incident of it in my 20-year ...
Diagnosing medical conditions is not easy. Patients can have nondescript symptoms that could point to common problems as easily as rare or poorly understood ones. They can sprinkle in irrelevant ...
Disclosure: Marc D. Feldman, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships in addition to his employment. Disclosure: Ilene D. Miner, MSW, LCSW-R, has disclosed no relevant financial ...
Poverty, post-natal depression and child abuse are all risk factors for sudden infant death. An unknown proportion of these deaths is due to intentional suffocation. Pointers to such cases include ...