New guidelines on identifying fabricated or induced illness (FII) in children are needed after research has found previous guidance to be inaccurate and the cause of false accusations against parents.

A national hospital discharge survey in 2013 recorded 6.8 cases of a factitious disorder per 100,000 patients. It is unclear how many of those patients had Munchausen syndrome, specifically.

Olive, the character of Camille Prats in GMA Afternoon Prime series "Mommy Dearest," is suffering from a disorder called Munchausen syndrome by proxy.. In an exclusive interview with GMA Drama, "Mommy ...

Hope Ybarra is the Texas mother at the center of one of America's most infamous cases of Munchausen by Proxy disorder. Tribune News Service via Getty Images One of Hope Ybarra's many tattoos.

In April 2013, now with a healthy following to commodify, Gibson registered her business name, “The Whole Pantry.” She recruited a group of young developers to build her an app on the cheap.

She's gone from being a victim of Munchausen by Proxy to convicted murderer to internet icon. Now, she’s becoming a mother for the first time. Here is everything you need to know about Gypsy ...

The official incidence is about 0.5 to 2.0 cases in every 100,000 children under the age of 16, according to a 2013 Pediatrics report, ... Deception is central to Munchausen by proxy.

Whether fictional or fact-based, Munchausen syndrome by proxy grips the public. Media depictions in The Sixth Sense and Sharp Objects and real-life news coverage of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s ...

Over the next 200 years, the word “Munchausen” settled into the collective psyche. By the 1850s, it was most often used as a verb, slang for telling “extravagantly untruthful pseudo ...

Sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2013 for her cruel and unusual role in the death of her infant daughter, Blanca Montano's case of Munchausen's is particularly tough to read.