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Please ‘listen’ to my symptoms, don’t drug them.

The preliminary results of a research study was reported at the 2012 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Boston.  These results show that for the 10 top pediatric conditions, children accounted for 60% of patients but only 12% of the clinical drug trials. This is pretty scary when you consider that decisions about drug treatment for [...]

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What makes pre-schoolers feel Stress?

A mom spoke to me recently about her pre-school son.  When she described his symptoms, I told her,  “Your son is showing signs of stress.   We need to find out where this stress is coming from.”  “How can that be?  She asked horrified.  “He is only three years old!  What has he got to be [...]

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Be your Child’s Advocate and Go to the Core

Now, more than ever, it is time for parents to take charge of the way that their children’s learning and behavior issues are being treated. Frightening numbers of children are struggling with issues like underachievement, low motivation, meltdowns, bullying, anxiety, behavior problems, depression, OCD, ADHD, autism, eczema, asthma, allergies, low immune system … and others. [...]

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