by Dr. Brian Udell | Feb 5, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, News-Maybe-Worthy, Vaccines
Pediatrics, one of our primary and most respected medical journals, published a report this week that “There was no elevated risk of ITP after any vaccine in early childhood other than MMR in the 12- to 19-month age group.” ITP stands for “Immune...
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 | 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...
