So . . . the anticipated larger reach has roused me from lassitude to mention that there really are excellent resources for medical information on the Internet. The Huffington Post offers a platform for a wonderfully diverse group of medical writers and I'm happy to be here.

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In a recent magazine article, Ms. Bundchen was quoted saying that breastfeeding should be the legal norm for all babies for the first six months of life.

Of course, this generated a storm of protest about "feeding choices" and whether or not we should listen to someone with her...

Tonight PBS aired a show called "The Vaccine War." I was interviewed at great length and in great depth about vaccines and my point of view and expressed my ambivalence about the polarization of this issue and the need for more calm reasoned discussion about the number one question that...

Based on the findings of Britain's General Medical Council, the journal had no choice but to retract the twelve-year-old research and I agree with their retraction. At the very least, the study was far too small, and -- as I've said repeatedly -- had too many methodological flaws, to be...

I wrote this note in response to a post on "Peachhead2," a parents' bulletin board.

"With all due respect to Dr. Gordon's article and his opinion posted [on Peachhead2] I would love to hear [another] doctor's opinion about the H1N1. I talked to a neurologist last week and he...

Dr. Harvey Karp has just written an excellent blog beginning to discuss the role environmental toxins play in causing autism. I agree that the huge rise in autism is real, and not just related to better diagnosis or reclassification of mental illness. Autism is most likely caused by a genetic...

The Swine Flu news stories must bring to mind the previous ad campaign to sell Tamiflu.

This virus is being made to sound mysterious because the diagnoses are being made in scattered areas. This should merely highlight the fact that tens or hundreds of thousands of people with bad...

Look at the date on this incredible article supposedly published in JAMA!!

Wait! This is not satire? It really WAS published April First in JAMA!???

By some of the most important doctors and authors in the world???

They stole my idea? I'll call my lawyers in the morning.

Well, that wasn't April's only storm. An April Fool's joke I posted to a private group of a few thousand doctors, lactation experts and other medical experts triggered alarm in the halls of my club, The American Academy of Pediatrics.

Interestingly, the AAP may actually have dramatically...

Dr. Rahul Parikh's article entitled, "Parents, Don't Be Immune to Vaccine Truths" should not have been published by the Los Angeles Times. He begins by painting a grim picture of a child in Mumbai who survives a case of tetanus. Instead of attempting to educate parents, his stated aim,...

The Los Angeles Times featured a scary, virtually fact-free article about vaccines on its front page Sunday. They dredged up old stories and concluded with a quote from an over-exposed expert who makes millions of dollars from his vaccine patents.

Parents' blogs and bulletin boards lit up and...

They were disdainful and unscientific in their approach and did not gather the needed evidence. In the absence of that evidence, they should have insisted on further studies to assist in the decision-making process.

Vaccines as they are now manufactured and administered trigger autism in susceptible children.

This will be...

It took fifty years before the courts finally acknowledged that cigarette smoking causes cancer.

There were billions of dollars at stake.

The dozens of court decisions that there "was no proof" were supported by physicians, expert witnesses of all types and hundreds of millions of dollars...

Congress and President Obama will have to challenge the insurance companies' obsession with scalpels, scopes, shots and medication.

The most important thing I do every day is talking to the parents and the children in my pediatric office. There will be no effective reform of health care until a...

No proof, but there is evidence that polycarbonate baby bottles which contain bisphenol A (BPA) have a "hormone-like" effect on the reproductive system. The CDC has issued cautions and now the Canadian government will be banning this toxic substance.

There are a large number of substitutes and

About twenty years ago, I was approached by a manufacturer of vitamins and supplements and asked to write articles for a magazine. This magazine--coincidentally--was sponsored by the manufacturer and all the articles--coincidentally--were about their products.

I should have been a bit suspicious when the first article was to be...

The Los Angeles Times series about the Gates Foundation's investments in companies and industries responsible for death and misery (see Nestle and Ameriquest) caused them to pause for a few seconds.

Then, they promptly flip-flopped back to saying that blind investing is just fine with them. Their CEO's letter...

The Los Angeles Times series on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Foundation's response reveal hypocrisy which harms babies by the millions.

No one questions the good the Gateses and their foundation have done but now they must address the deaths caused by their "blind investments."

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Spinoza's response at the bottom of the comments is well worth reading. I strongly disagree with Dr. Spinoza's opinions and some of his facts, but he has crafted a cogent rebuttal. (I accidentally deleted his first comment and he was kind enough to re-post.)

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Tomorrow's "New England Journal of Medicine" will make the front pages of many if not most major newspapers. They are publishing two excellent studies which show that being overweight shortens life.

I have a different "take" on overweight and obesity because I'm a pediatrician and very few of...