The term “Munchausen syndrome” was coined in 1951 by Richard Asher, who named it after Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen (also known as Baron von Munchausen), an eighteenth-century ...

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.

Mishka Pollman thought she was doing the right thing when she shared her son's medical scare to warn other parents. Instead, she found herself at the center of an online troll storm. In late August, ...

Arquette plays a Missouri woman who falsely convinced the world that her child was seriously ill, in the Hulu series The Act. She says it was... Patricia Arquette Explores The 'Toxic Codependency' Of ...