by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 8, 2012 | >ALL<, Diagnosis, Earliest Red Flags, Speech and Language
The New Year has inspired me to think about practice goals for the coming year; personally, professionally and more: 10. CAM practitioners will gain more respect by the conventional (and failing) medical community. 9. More institutional research which has been...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 2, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Diets, Patient experiences
It should go without saying that making an accurate and specific diagnosis is key to helping each patient, even if there is no current successful therapy. That is because, as medicine describes other patients with a similar set of signs and symptoms, there will be...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Dec 26, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Chelation, Diets, News-Maybe-Worthy, Vaccines
It’s the time of year to review what I think are the important events that have made the news regarding child developmental issues, especially regarding ASD. The Environmental Protection Agency has finally issued the first U.S. standards to cut mercury and other...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Dec 20, 2011 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diets, Patient experiences
One of the reasons that treating the modern developmental epidemic that we call ASD is fascinating is that, it IS a puzzle that is begging to be solved. As a pediatrician and perinatal/neonatal specialist, I have previously worked during the cocaine baby epidemic of...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Dec 9, 2011 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Diets, Patient experiences, Research, Sensory issues, Special Therapies
One of the goals of this blog is to help families navigate the complicated landscape of autism treatments. Because I am a conventionally trained and practicing pediatrician who has also studied alternative therapies, I feel that I have the credentials to give advice...
