by Dr. Brian Udell | Feb 20, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Diets, Patient experiences
It was the best of conferences, it was the worst of conferences. There were families living the reality and experts carrying the truth. These were my experiences at two very different autism conferences this past week. There were sharp contrasts in spirit, knowledge...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 19, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diets, Patient experiences
I’ll indulge myself a bit here and compare my medical practice that helps ASD patients to the story in the movie Moneyball. It’s about Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s, who changed the way that baseball evaluated, paid for, and...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 15, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Chelation, Patient experiences
Just this past Fall, Dr. Oz featured an episode about several brands of apple juice that contained up to 3-1/2 times the amount of arsenic that is considered safe in our drinking water. The Department of Health and Human Services sent investigators from the Food and...
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 | Nov 9, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Patient experiences
I recently had the pleasure of observing my talented and diligent son, Sean, at his job as a Special Education Teacher for 6th and 7th grade students in Denver, CO. As part of the organization Teach for America, he has been assigned to a new charter school with about...