Measles vaccinations are on everybody’s minds. We need to know the schedule in order to fully protect our children. My next patient, was a baby girl coming in for her 9 month well-check.Looking at the chart I noticed that she was only 8 months old. When I questioned the parents why she was coming […]
Read More →How destructive can a simple iPhone that everybody owns be? We have all read newspaper and magazine articles as well as heard TV news pundits expressing the threat that I phones present to our adolescents. Social media intimidation, bullying and gossiping have put many teens into a depressive funk. This leads to withdrawal from […]
Read More →Charles,an active 8-year-old boy, was playing and sustained a 3 inch laceration of his mid forearmwhile climbing over a chain link fence trying to retrieve a ball. Mom cleaned and covered it, and brought him to our office. It was a deep clean cutresembling one made with a scalpel. After numbing the area well, […]
Read More →Can my child with ADHD be treated without medication? What alternative do we have? Here is a list of common food additives that cannot be healthy for your children. NONPHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENTS FOR ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Adam P. Goode, DPT,PhD, et al. Pediatrics, Vol. 141, nu. 6, June 2018 pg. 46 This […]
Read More →Eighteen-month-olds who pass screening for autism spectrum disorder may later be diagnosed with ASD. CLINICAL FEATURES OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM WHO PASSED 18-MONTH SCREENING by Roald A. Oien, MA, et al. Pediatrics, vol. 141 nu. 6, June 2018, article 23 This is a good article showing that screening for autism at 18 months may […]
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