by Dr. Brian Udell | Apr 17, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diets, HBOT for ASD, Patient experiences
Parents search the world for answers when their child has a complicated medical condition. The more exotic, enigmatic, or frankly, hopeless the situation seems, the farther that journey takes them. When families consider a medical procedure as complicated as Stem Cell...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Apr 8, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences
This post is my response to the April, 2012 Issue of the AAP news. The lead piece was entitled, ‘If not vaccination, then what?’ The second headline was, ‘How to end physician-patient relationship legally’. In the first article, a respected...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Mar 5, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Chelation, Diets, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences
The community of practitioners who care for children on the autism spectrum (formerly known as DAN! – Defeat Autism Now) is evolving into the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs (medmaps.org). This is due, in large part, to the work of Dr. Dan Rossignol,...
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 | Feb 12, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diets, Patient experiences, Sleep
Recently, a very caring, observant and apparently well-read Mom who is “only interested in ‘natural’ therapies” for her moderate-to-severely affected 10 year-old son asked, “What about focalin?” Um, that’s not exactly a...