In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the ...

A growing number of medical experts and law enforcement officials are reversing testimony that put parents behind bars. But ...

We need to be super careful with how we handle our babies. If we do it the wrong way, we might harm their delicate little bodies. This can lead to what’s known as Shaken Baby Syndrome. If you have a ...

About five years ago, Nicole, a mother of two, had friends over for dinner while her husband, Sean, watched 3-year-old Courtney and 2-month-old Sarah. Fifteen minutes into dinner, Sean interrupted ...

In 1971, a British doctor was trying to puzzle out a mystery: How can a child with no signs of external trauma or injury present with bleeding between the skull and brain? That doctor, A. Norman ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed with the lower courts in finding that expert testimony on the diagnosis of abusive head trauma, known as shaken baby syndrome, isn’t scientifically reliable.

The court found that prosecutors did not prove general acceptance in the medical and biomechanical communities that shaking alone causes the syndrome's symptoms. This ruling impacts two Middlesex ...

Not everyone has hand tremors just because their hands are shaking. Many of the common hand tremors can be signs of early Parkinson's disease, and subtle changes, such as slow shaking of only one hand ...