Child in Mind

In today's Boston Globe I have an op-ed about DSM-V: " Warning label on a new diagnosis ." Interestingly, while I wrote the pi...

As I wrote in my previous post, I was quite disturbed at the implications of Judith Warner’s recent New York Magazine article, where she su...

PART ONE No parent wants to see their child suffer. It goes against human nature. Thus I found the implication of the last sentence of Judit...

In my pediatric practice, it is not uncommon for a mother, given the time, to move quickly away from telling me about her child’s behavior p...

Carolyn Riley’s act of giving her daughter Rebecca an overdose of prescribed medication may have been the immediate cause of Rebecca’s deat...

A recent editorial in the Boston Globe addressed the dearth of primary care physicians. The piece concluded: “Federal funding for new resi...

"Parenting behaviors impact young children's development'" says an interesting study by Frances Glascoe, PhD and Shirley L...