In May 2018, Spreadbury was sentenced to four years in prison, after scans found Bradley’s brain injuries had been caused by ...

Robert Roberson should have died two weeks ago. He was scheduled to be executed on October 17 for murdering his two-year-old ...

The purpose of this article is to review the incidence, biomechanics, risk factors, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and prognosis of shaken baby syndrome (SBS), as well as to encourage ...

HOUSTON — A Texas man on Thursday night gained a reprieve from becoming the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Robert ...

In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on what some believe to be an outdated "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary ...

Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a violent act of abuse that can cause myriad neurologic, cognitive, and other functional deficits. In the most serious cases, death can result. Health care ...

In 2002, Robert Roberson found his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, unresponsive after she fell off a bed in the family’s house in the East Texas city of Palestine. Roberson took her to ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.” ...

Convicted of a crime that never happened, Roberson’s case is a prime example of how the U.S. legal system often fails to recognize advances in scientific knowledge ...

A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal ...

A Missouri infant is on the road to recovery after sustaining severe brain injuries allegedly caused by his mother’s former ...