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Your Kid feeling pukish right before boarding the school bus? It is not uncommon to see kids both in real life and fiction pretending to be sick when it's time to catch the bus for school. It might be ...

Understand the distinctions between malingering, feigning illness, and deceptive reporting and the issues that complicate research and identification of feigning in clinical practice. Recognize the ...

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Common Pleas Court Judge John Capuzzi wants to see more background information on a man accused of numerous sexual offenses involving disabled women before making any further decisions about his case.

But this nickname now reveals a more sinister side to Teresa, who robbed her community of more than $41,000 ($US31,000) by pretending her seven-year-old had cancer ...

A judge said on Monday that there are indications that a transient man is malingering to avoid standing trial on a murder charge for the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART ...

“Malingering” – faking a sickness for an ulterior motive – is surprisingly common. Here are some of the ways in which doctors tell real illnesses from false ones. But Gigante was malingering: a term ...