I've often wondered why it is that we've been successful in treating children with food phobia while so many other facilities fail to do so. I don't say this to…

Haley is a sweet little girl from the southern part of our country who had a big problem: for more than a month, following a dental procedure, she had been…

I spend a lot of time thinking about childhood anorexia nervosa and have both written and lectured on my belief that anorexia is a highly heritable brain disorder initiated by…

If your chi ld had a severe medical condition requiring specialized surgery or treatment and the answer to "where should my child be treated?" was the Mayo Clinic, likely you…

Mental health providers can be as misguided as medical providers, that is clear. Many practitioners in both fields learn about eating disorders during their training and what they have learned…

I know it is controversial to write about the shortcomings of some of my physician colleagues; in medicine it is rarely done. But if we won't advocate for children who…

Wikipedia says: "In medicine, a chronic disease is a disease that is long-lasting or recurrent. The term chronic describes the course of the disease, or its rate of onset and…

One of the many focuses of distress for our families can be their understandable concern for the other children in the family. While only one child may be being treated…

Every day some family in our practice struggles with their insurance company over eating disorder treatment. It is not enough to provide the best, most up-to-date and effective treatment for…

What would it be like if we could add a blood test to our evaluation of a patient with anorexia nervosa? This might sound an outlandish question but recent published…