NEWS AND ARTICLES
Daily Mail (UK) - Pregnancy test
dispenser installed inside BAR in effort to stop women drinking while
expecting
The owner of a bar
decided to install a pregnancy test dispenser inside of the women's
restroom in an effort to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome.
Sun News Network -
Fetal alcohol syndrome can have no outward signs: Study
Fetal alcohol
syndrome can be hard to diagnose because not all babies develop the
distinct facial features normally associated with the disease, a new
study has found.
News-Medical.net -
Prenatal alcohol exposure effects last well into childhood
Women who heavily
expose their unborn child to alcohol risk restricting their child's
growth until the age of 9 years, researchers say.
CBS News (USA) - 1
in 13 pregnant women drink alcohol, CDC says
Drinking alcohol
during pregnancy is the leading preventable cause of birth defects
and developmental disabilities in children, says the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Daily Commercial
News (Canada) - Governments of Canada and Yukon Invest in
Affordable Housing in Whitehorse
The Governments of
Canada and Yukon, along with community partners, gathered today to
announce funding for Options for Independence, for a new building
providing 14 new housing units for clients living with Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in Whitehorse.
DigitalJournal.com
(South Africa) - Sanford Research President Advances International
Research on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Data from a recent
trip to South Africa for Sanford Health’s Gene Hoyme, MD, will be
used to develop criteria for more accurate recognition of fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in infancy and early childhood.
Early recognition of this continuum of disorders is critical as it
provides children with access to intervention services sooner and
improves their health outcomes.
Medical News Today
- Mothers Who Smoke While Pregnant Increase Their Baby's Risk Of
Asthma
New research has
discovered that mothers who smoke during pregnancy may cause wheeze
and asthma in their children when they reach preschool, even among
kids whose moms did not smoke until late pregnancy or after birth.
Voxy (New Zealand)
- Prison more likely for those prenatally exposed to alcohol
The Health Select
Committee should take seriously Children's Commissioner Dr Russell
Wills concerns about the increase of children with Foetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders(FADS), says Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking
Crime and Punishment. FASD is an umbrella term describing the range
of effects that can occur in an individual prenatally exposed to
alcohol.
AllAfrica.com
(South Africa) - South Africa: Headway in the Fight Against FAS
A far-flung
Northern Cape town has been making world headlines over the last few
years. Unfortunately for the wrong reasons - a 2002-study revealed
that more than one in 10 (12.2%) children in the De Aar community had
foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), giving the town the highest reported
rate in the world.
Cambridge News -
Toolkit tackles birth defects in developing world
A pioneering
resource to help tackle birth defects, particularly in low and middle
income countries (LMICs) has been made available free and online to
health and policy professionals and patient groups worldwide.
Thats Life
(Australia) - I paid the ultimate price for my binge drinking
Looking at my
daughter Krystal, you would never know she was different to other
girls her age. But the truth is, her life is plagued with health
problems. Learning difficulties, vision and hearing impairments...
ABANow (USA) -
Urges Training to Recognize FASD in Juvenile Justice System
RESOLVED, That the
American Bar Association urges attorneys and judges, state, local,
and specialty bar associations, and law school clinical programs to
help identify and respond effectively to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders (FASD) in children and adults, through training to enhance
awareness of FASD and its impact on individuals in the child welfare,
juvenile justice, and adult criminal justice systems and the value of
collaboration with medical, mental health, and disability experts.
Risk Sense - Why
We Need to Ban the Word “Safe” from Reports of Risk Research: The
Example of Alcohol Use in Pregnancy
Yesterday, BJOG:
An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
electronically published in “Early View” 5 articles from a Danish
research group, all of which use longitudinal data from 2003-2008 to
consider the relationship (or lack thereof) between maternal alcohol
consumption during pregnancy and various outcomes (executive
function, intelligence, attention) in these mothers’ children at 5
years of age.
National Times
(Australia) - Everyone gets a say in the alcohol debate - except
the foetus
In the debate over
serving alcohol to pregnant women - following an incident in which a
waitress refused to serve a pregnant woman alcohol in California -
doctors, legal experts, women’s rights activists and hospitality
workers have all weighed in. Sadly the foetus doesn’t get a say.
Science Nordic
(Norway) - For Norwegian drug addicts, pregnancy might lead to
incarceration
A unique law gives
social workers in Norway the right to lock up pregnant drug addicts
to protect the health of unborn children. A new study looks at how
the pregnant users react to being incarcerated.
COMING UP
Second European Conference on FASD
Due to the summer
vacation period, Early Bird registration has been extended to August
20. Make sure your registration and payment are received by this
date to qualify for the reduced fee!
FASDlive 2012 Conference: Expanding
our Vision
The FASD Support
Network of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Ministry of Health,
Saskatchewan Prevention Institute, and Canada Northwest FASD
Partnership are pleased to invite you to our conference FASDlive
2012: Expanding our Vision.
Vorankündigung der 14. FASD
Fachtagung 2012
Jedes Jahr werden
in Deutschland immer noch 4000 bis 10 000 Menschen mit fetalen
Alkoholspektrumsstörungen (FASD) geboren. Die vermeidbare Ursache
für diese geistigen und körperlichen Fehlentwicklungen ist
Akloholkonsum während der Schwangerschaft. Im Verlauf dieser
Fachtagung werden wir Rückschau halten auf 40 Jahre Forschung und
Prävention und auf die neuesten Entwicklungen in Forschung und
Therapie …
RESEARCH
Alcohol and
Alcoholism - Advanced Gestational Age Increases Serum
Carbohydrate-Deficient Transferrin Levels in Abstinent Pregnant Women
Carbohydrate-deficient
transferrin (%CDT) is a well-established and highly specific
biomarker for sustained heavy consumption of alcohol. However, in
pregnant women, the specificity of this biomarker might be affected
by advanced gestational age, even after accounting for increased
transferrin concentrations in pregnancy.
Behavioural Brain
Research - Prenatal ethanol exposure impairs passive avoidance
acquisition and enhances unconditioned freezing in rat offspring
To clarify in
detail the impaired behavior related to fear and anxiety seen in rat
offspring prenatally exposed to ethanol, their behaviors were
observed using an elevated T-maze (ETM) test, which allows assessment
of passive avoidance acquisition and one-way escape separately, and
an elevated open platform (EOP) test for the assessment of
unconditioned freezing against innate fear.
Alcoholism -
Children with Heavy Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Experience Reduced
Control of Isotonic Force
Heavy prenatal
alcohol exposure can result in diverse and extensive damage to the
central nervous system, including the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and
cerebral cortex. Given that these brain regions are involved in the
generation and maintenance of motor force, we predicted that prenatal
alcohol exposure would adversely affect this parameter of motor
control.
Alcoholism - A
Prospective Cohort Study of the Prevalence of Growth, Facial, and
Central Nervous System Abnormalities in Children with Heavy Prenatal
Alcohol Exposure
Most children who
are exposed to large quantities of alcohol in utero do not develop
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Population-based prospective data on
the risk of developing components of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
(FASD), however, are limited.
Alcoholism -
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder, and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo
Alcohol-exposed
children exhibited elevated SCT scores. Elevations were related to
increased parent ratings of internalizing and externalizing behaviors
and attention. These findings are observed in alcohol-exposed
children regardless of ADHD symptoms and specific SCT items proved
useful in distinguishing exposed children, suggesting clinical
utility for this measure in further defining the neurobehavioral
profile related to prenatal alcohol exposure.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
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Dagblad (Sweden) - Skapa kunskapscentrum
Glöm inte bort
grupper när neuropsykiatrin ska förbättras. Krav från Katarina
Wittgard och Annelie Björkhagen Turesson.
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