What Doctors Don't Tell You* Test for allergies, metal poisoning and other toxins such as pesticides, except in cases of autism. (The effects of autism are due to toxicity of foods, rather than allergies per se, and the tests won’t pick up any reaction.)
Although mental disorders are overdiagnosed in children, the reality is that there is indeed an increased incidence of behavioural problems among children today. So what is causing our children to ‘act up’ more than their counterparts of yesteryear...
It's a fact that ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is an over diagnosed 'condition' that makes patients of children who used to be classified as 'difficult' or 'energetic'. Once the ADHD label has been attached, a child can become a...
Q Could you tell me the side effects of the new chickenpox vaccine, which doctors are now recommending for babies? - EH, Santa Fe, NM.
Most of the children studied by Dr William Shaw, former head of the toxicology laboratory of a major midwestern children's medical centre and now with the Great Plains Laboratory in Overland Park, ...
Don't let anyone bully you into your decision, for or against. This is a complex issue. Read everything you can and try to separate emotion from fact. ...
Around 10 per cent of all children in the UK and the USA are labeled with some learning difficulty, such as ADHD or dyslexia.
In a medical volte face, pediatricians in New Zealand are now saying that you can reduce the risk of your child dying from cot death or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) if he sleeps in the same room as you.
BABIES AND PAIN: Medicine's great blind spot
A survey of l00 GPs from the current Wessex Family Health Services Authority and all 28 of the consultant child psychiatrists in the area found that in a three month period, 6l prescriptions for h ...
