She left PEOPLE in 2021. A disorder called Munchausen by proxy has made headlines lately, thanks to fictionalized TV accounts of malicious moms on shows like The Politician, The Act, and Sharp ...

Munchausen by proxy “is a form of abuse in ... 2.0 cases in every 100,000 children under the age of 16, according to a 2013 Pediatrics report, but things might be much more serious than that.

The hospital was found liable of multiple claims, including the wrongful death of Beata Kowalski and inflicting emotional distress on her, according to reports Jack Kowalski Johns Hopkins Children ...

Chapman describing a galloping case of the “Munchausen syndrome”* (TIME, March 5, 1951) and warning hospitals against this itinerant who, strangely, always used the same name. Hospital ...