It is not the role of emergency department staff to substantiate a claim of child maltreatment, but only to report a reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect. In most scenarios, the emergency department staff do not know a child or family prior to the encounter and they are meeting the family for the first time in a crisis situation.

A judge denied a motion Wednesday to exclude testimony from a doctor at a Chicago pediatric hospital during an upcoming trial for a woman charged with causing the death of an infant she was babysitting in 2016.

Nearly nine years after her son, Brayden, died, Shannon Turnbill still replays the image of the 5-year-old lying on the bed, unresponsive.

A standard report that takes minutes to generate is increasingly becoming one of the most important pieces of evidence in medical malpractice litigation.

A family is suing the state of Illinois, a child welfare investigator contracted by the state, and others, alleging their three children were taken away for more than a year over the investigator’s hurt feelings.

The Office of the National Coordinator’s first release of information blocking claims was much anticipated, given the free flow of health information across different entities is a perennial problem in the U.S.

A federal lawsuit filed against a child welfare investigator contracted by the state of Illinois, and others, alleges three children were taken away from their parents for more than a year for arbitrary reasons.

Spurred by an Appeal investigation into Michelle Heale’s controversial 2015 case, a law professor is asking New Jersey’s Conviction Review Unit to “correct an injustice” and set Heale free.

Parents and caregivers say their lives were upended after Dr. Barbara Knox wrongly diagnosed children’s illnesses or accidental injuries as abuse

A man’s convictions in the 2012 death of a Rosamond baby have been overturned after a Superior Court judge found defense counsel failed to provide police reports to an expert witness and conceded the child died of abuse instead of investigating evidence of natural or pre-existing conditions.