Here are the second five (of the ten) travel diseases I’m discussing. Things that you might want to take into consideration, especially when you’re crossing borders. Cholera, Bird Flu, TB, Malaria and Yellow Fever.
Ok, lets see how astute you are about summer medical problems in children. You are the doctor and an adolescent comes into your office with swollen eyes and a rash over his face and arms with blisters which itch terribly. (more…)
Daniel Kish: Seeing With Your Brain
He calls himself unremarkable which is obviously not so. He says he’s been blind since nearly birth but navigates up steps and onto the TED stage on his own without a misstep. He knows that others see him as unusually capable for a blind person and call him “batman” but calls it only living without fear and activating your brain.
[A mother wonders if a child’s speech problem could be caused by enlarged tonsils.] (more…)
[Head Injury in a two year old, follow-up testing and behavior changes.] (more…)
[Page is no longer served on the CDC site – an odd thing for a major government entity like the CDC to do; but, there you are.] Body Mass Index (BMI) uses weight and height to calculate a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people in order to screen for potential health problems. Here […]
[Site no longer active – It’s camped on by an internet “flipper” trying to make a killing. I even tried to use the “wayback” archives to try and resurrect the page to include here; but, alas, it didn’t work!] Being a parent to a child with Asperger’s High-Functioning Autism is at least high-adventure parenting if […]
