I was reading an online opinion piece by one of my colleagues, Dr Ovidio Bermudez, who like me is an adolescent medicine physician and eating disorder doctor.  This one sentence…

This blog post is about a useful, if prosaic, product we use in the initial phases of re-feeding at Kartini Clinic. I hope this post is helpful to parents looking…

Binge-Purge Anorexia vs Bulimia: what's the difference? It has now been three years since the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was published and it’s time for…

Recently, while responding to a struggling parent who had posed a specific concern on the F.E.A.S.T. website, I used the word "remission." Another mother on the forum responded that she…

As some of you already know, at Kartini Clinic we specialize in children and teens with all conditions of disordered eating—but our deepest specialty is children ages 12 and under.…

The acceptance and success of family based treatment interventions in the world of eating disorders has been one of the major mental health breakthroughs of the past few decades. Empowering…

In the 2000’s and even earlier, it became apparent that the systems of classifications used to define eating disorders were inadequate to describe the entire spectrum of clinical presentations, especially…

June 2nd, 2016 will mark the first World Eating Disorders Action Day, an internationally-recognized day during which members of the eating disorder community, including affected individuals and their families as…

When the care you’re receiving just isn’t good enough The other day I received a call from a distraught sister-in-law who was visiting my niece, her daughter, in a developing…

As I have said many times in the past, complete weight restoration is the conditio sine qua non of childhood eating disorder treatment -- if you do not get weight…