"Has any court ever found that particular scientific studies have to be generally accepted, or just the diagnosis as a whole ...

A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. under a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of ...

A study published last year in Forensic Science International found that a significant number of patients were misdiagnosed with abusive head trauma, citing other conditions that can cause ...

Abusive head trauma generally occurs when a frustrated parent or caregiver violently shakes a child and/or causes a blunt impact injury, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ...

ICON Cope founder Dr Suzanne Smith, said: “Abusive head trauma can occur in any setting when a parent or carer is overwhelmed by persistent crying." "The additional pressures from the rising ...

Squier, Waney 2024. Retinodural haemorrhage of infancy, abusive head trauma, shaken baby syndrome: The continuing quest for evidence. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Vol. 66, Issue. 3, p.

“I worry the pushback against abusive head trauma as a diagnosis is going to interfere with the prevention efforts that are out there and therefore allow more children to get harmed,” Haney ...