Ahead of the premiere of a new Netflix documentary, Take Care of Maya, Maya Kowalski tells PEOPLE how a hospitalization for her painful and rare neurological condition led to her mother’s suicide ...

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 ...

In this disturbing episode of True Crime Stories, Emma Kenny delves into the chilling case of Olivia Grant , a child victim ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The attorney for a Winnebago mother accused of medically abusing her children says there isn't sufficient evidence to convict her.

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 ...

Scott Naso and his in-laws all agree they love his 4-year-old, Laila. But their legal battle has revealed explosive claims of ...

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, ...

A woman who allegedly subjected her 8-year-old son to unnecessary medical procedures as severe as an appendectomy and a colonoscopy for fabricated ailments has been charged, police in Pennsylvania ...

Here’s a chance for you to play armchair psychologist. What do you think is wrong with this mother? She is the primary caretaker of her child, whom she says has a myriad of confusing and alarming ...

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 ...

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas -- A mother in Texas is facing nine felony charges for alleged medical abuse involving her 15-year-old daughter, KTVT reported. On Wednesday, the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office ...