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...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 29, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences
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...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 22, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences
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...
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...
