A controversial diagnosis used against a man facing execution in the US helped convict an NZ woman featured in the latest Newsroom investigative podcast Fractured ...

A Texas judge has blocked the execution of the first man to be put on death row in the US for murder charges related to ...

He said the 13-week-old had suffered multiple serious injuries including abusive head trauma, retinal haemorrhage, extensive face and neck bruising and a fracture of the tibia. The doctor concluded ...

fluids built up on her abdominal cavity and “extensive bilateral retinal hemorrhages.” Doctors said they believed the injuries were consistent with child abuse, including abusive head trauma ...

At the intersection of medicine and criminal justice, few diagnoses have stirred as much controversy as Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). Once considered a clear-cut indication of child abuse, this ...

He said the 13-week-old had suffered multiple serious injuries including abusive head trauma, retinal haemorrhage, extensive face and neck bruising and a fracture of the tibia. The doctor ...

A condemned man in Texas is set to die this month in what would be the country's first execution for "shaken baby syndrome," a scrutinized diagnosis that has been successfully challenged in some ...

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 ...

The term was changed in 2009 to abusive head trauma, a more inclusive diagnosis, Haney said. There are about 1,300 reported cases of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma in the U.S. each year ...