by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 25, 2015 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, Patient experiences, Research, Speech and Language, Vaccines
Recent news about the increase in measles that has sprung up in California, has brought about the usual media finger-pointing, claiming that the cause is unvaccinated children whose parents unnecessarily worry about the risk of autism. As documented in my previous...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 4, 2014 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Earliest Red Flags, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Vaccines
In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, “The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic”, Dr. Paul I-never-met-a-vaccine-I-didn’t-like Offit whined about the ignorant public, The Wakefield Effect, “fringe” doctors, foolish families and the...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Aug 29, 2014 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Chelation, Research, Vaccines
Regarding any association between ‘shots’ and the occurrence of ASD, the vast majority of accepted scientific evidence supports vaccine safety. Yet, for a great number of families, the term ‘vaccine safety’ is an oxymoron. When childhood...
by Dr. Brian Udell | May 24, 2014 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Chelation, Conferences, Diets, Gastrointestinal Issue, HBOT for ASD, Patient experiences, Research, Reversing autism, Special Therapies, Vaccines
I hadn’t really expected MMS to gain any traction as a viable autism treatment. It seems complicated and scary, and the FDA first issued a warning about it four years ago. Perhaps there is no measurable re-emergence, but it seemed so when I attended the Autism...
by Dr. Brian Udell | May 13, 2014 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Diets, Gastrointestinal Issue, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Vaccines
This month, Pediatrics published a paper indicating that there was, in fact, a “greater prevalence of GI symptoms among children with ASD compared with control children.” OK, so far. Not really groundbreaking information, but it did appear in a mainstream,...
by Dr. Brian Udell | May 10, 2014 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Diets, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Speech and Language, Vaccines
Every new patient at The Child Development Center has a unique history and physical presentation. Often, however, the children share the experience that their mother: a. Already knew, or highly suspected, ASD, and b. Heard the doctors proclaim that they were...