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Neuropsych testing

As a Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician, I saw many patients with learning disabilities. The school psychologist and the neuropsychological testing that they did was vital in making the initial diagnosis. It was just as important in following the [...]

2024-02-08T10:57:16-05:00February 8, 2024|HEALTH|

Energy drinks

Energy drinks have become common. There have been medical studies to look at their effects in adolescents. A recent study looked at 782 of these studies. They weeded them down to the 57 most relevant ones. Most people [...]

2024-02-01T11:01:15-05:00February 1, 2024|HEALTH|

Botulism

There is an old adage that goes, “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” That saying clearly predates the Internet and social media. There are some exchanges [...]

2026-06-30T07:24:59-05:00January 25, 2024|HEALTH|

Extinction events

It has been almost 200 years since Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution. One of the key tenets of that theory is survival of the fittest. That tenet has played itself out multiple times throughout history. Scientists [...]

2026-06-30T07:25:04-05:00January 18, 2024|HEALTH|

Importance of patient history

I was recently reading a pediatric article about a 9 year old girl. She came in with arthritis of her ankle, and the history failed to reveal anything that would suggest a cause of an inflamed ankle. They [...]

2025-11-26T09:04:16-05:00January 11, 2024|HEALTH|

Adolescent pressures

I saw the play Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway. It was a depiction of adolescent angst. There were a lot of themes about how difficult it was for some adolescents to find their way. They did a good [...]

2024-01-04T10:42:18-05:00January 4, 2024|HEALTH|
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