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Walkabout for Autism 2013

Walkabout for Autism 2013

This past weekend, the Dan Marino Foundation hosted the second annual Walkabout for Autism at Sun Life Stadium here in South Florida. The Foundation is a wonderful agency, assisting many other charitable organizations that help families and children with ASD. As a...

The New Autism

The New Autism

There were lots of media stories this week announcing that, because the criteria for the diagnosis of autism are changing in the new Diagnostic Manual (DSM V), there could be a decrease in the number of documented cases. This finding was based on a study by Dr. Fred...

Walkabout for Autism 2013

Autism & Moneyball

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 used players to win...

Apples, Arsenic & Autism

Apples, Arsenic & Autism

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...

Top Ten Autism Plans for 2012

Top Ten Autism Plans for 2012

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...

Asperger’s and Autism

Asperger’s and Autism

I don’t have a problem with the proposed DSM V inclusion under the ‘Spectrum’ umbrella. Heck, utilizing psychiatric diagnostic criteria for autism is wrong in the first place. Also, if it gets services for affected individuals, that is ultimately the goal, anyway.

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