NEWS and ARTICLES
TbNewsWatch.com - FASD and abuse
More than half of
the reported child abuse cases in this city are connected to fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder, says a local FASD educator.
CBC.ca (Canada) -
Northern Ontario university bar 1st in Canada to offer pregnancy
tests
A campus pub at
Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., will be the first bar in
Canada to install a pregnancy test dispenser in its bathroom. Healthy
Brains for Children, an organization dedicated to preventing fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder, hopes other bars across the country will
follow the Outpost's lead and do the same.
News1130 (Canada)
- Port Alberni college hopes to continue program for students with
FASD
A college on
Vancouver Island hopes to come up with enough funding so it can
continue a unique program serving students with fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder.
ABC Local
(Australia) - I want to make FASD history: young Fitzroy Crossing
health worker
Jadnah Davies is
travelling to communities in the Fitzroy Valley to deliver education
and awareness about Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Regina Leader-Post
(Canada) - FASD 'still such a brand-new disability'
If you were to
come into contact with someone who suffers from fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder, or FASD, and if they were to tell you they'd been
to the moon in the recent past, they wouldn't necessarily be lying.
MOFAS -
Misinformation persists about drinking alcohol during pregnancy
The Minnesota
Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (MOFAS) is concerned that the
most recent study from Britain which says the children of mothers who
drank ‘moderately’(defined as 3-7 drinks per week) in pregnancy
actually grew up to have better balance than those who abstained,
gives women a mixed message. - See more at:
MATERIALS and
VIDEOS
The Society of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - Clinical Practice Guidelines
Health
Professionals Working With First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Consensus
Guideline
Canfasd - What's
Your Cap? Prevention through Research - Christina Meeds McGowan and
Justine Shenher
"Shining a
Light on Canada's Multi-Layered Approach to FASD Prevention," an
evening session on promoting women's health and preventing FASD, was
held on February 28th, 2013 as a part of the 5th International
Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Vancouver, BC.
Walk A Mile
trailer Elvis Tribute Artist born with fetal alcohol syndrome
Danny Frasier aka
Little Elvis was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, lost both legs,
taught himself to walk on his hands and is now an Elvis Tribute
Artist. This is his story.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Dr
Valerie McGinn
Dr Valerie McGinn,
a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder, talks about the damaging effects of alcohol on the unborn
child.
Vermont Family
Network - What You Need to Know About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders
According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a group of conditions that can occur
in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy.
RESEARCH
Pediatria -
Alcohol intake in lactating women assisted in a University
Hospital
To determine the
prevalence of alcohol intake and the degree of alcohol-related risk
among nursing mothers attended at the Child Care Service of Hospital
das Clínicas of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil.
Nutrition Journal
- Consumption habits of pregnant women and implications for
developmental biology: a survey of predominantly Hispanic women in
California
Healthy
post-pregnancy outcomes are contingent upon an informed regimen of
prenatal care encouraging healthy maternal consumption habits. In
this article, we describe aspects of maternal intake of food, drink,
and medication in a population of predominantly Hispanic women in
Southern California.
Alcohol - Effect
of prenatal alcohol exposure on bony craniofacial development: A
mouse MicroCT study
Craniofacial bone
dysmorphology is an important but under-explored potential diagnostic
feature of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Alcoholism -
Participation of Catalase in Voluntary Ethanol Consumption in
Perinatally Low-Level Lead-Exposed Rats
Environmental lead
(Pb) exposure and alcohol abuse pose significant public health
problems for our society. One of the proposed mechanisms of action of
the developmental neurotoxicant Pb is related to its ability to
affect antioxidant enzymes, including catalase (CAT).
Alcoholism -
Suppression and Epigenetic Regulation of MiR-9 Contributes to
Ethanol Teratology: Evidence from Zebrafish and Murine Fetal Neural
Stem Cell Models
Fetal alcohol
exposure produces multiorgan defects, making it difficult to identify
underlying etiological mechanisms. However, recent evidence for
ethanol (EtOH) sensitivity of the miRNA miR-9 suggests one mechanism,
whereby EtOH broadly influences development.
Frontiers in
Behavioural Neuroscience - Acetaldehyde reinforcement and motor
reactivity in newborns with or without a prenatal history of alcohol
exposure
Animal models have
shown that early ontogeny seems to be a period of enhanced affinity
to ethanol. Interestingly, the catalase system that transforms
ethanol (EtOH) into acetaldehyde (ACD) in the brain, is more active
in the perinatal rat compared to adults.
BJOG - Alcohol-use
disorders during and within one year of pregnancy: a population-based
cohort study 1985–2006
Mothers with an
International Classification of Diseases 9/10 alcohol-related
diagnosis, indicating heavy alcohol consumption, recorded on
population-based health datasets (non-Aboriginal n = 5839; Aboriginal
n = 2583) were identified through the Western Australian data-linkage
system.
Developmental and
Behavioral Pediatrics - Maternal Factors Predicting Cognitive and
Behavioral Characteristics of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders
To provide an
analysis of multiple predictors of cognitive and behavioral traits
for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).
UPCOMING EVENTS
Eurocare/EUFASD -
Policy Debate: Protecting the unborn baby from alcohol - Tuesday, 17
September 2013. 10h00 a.m - 13h00 p.m.
Unfortunately,
many women are not aware that throughout pregnancy, even at low
levels of exposure, alcohol interferes with the normal development
and can seriously damage the unborn child.
First International Conference on
Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Dr. Egon Jonsson
welcomes you to attend our First International Conference on
Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). A conference
about preventing harm from alcohol use during pregnancy.
2013 National FACE Roundtable and
FASD Conference – September 5-7 2013
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Weser Kurier
(Germany) - Weil Mama zur Flasche greift
Probleme in der
Schule, im Alltag und auf dem Arbeitsmarkt: Der 23-jährige Marco
Peters (Name von der Redaktion geändert) leidet an dem sogenannten
fetalen Alkoholsyndrom (FASD). Diese Störung kann entstehen, wenn
Mütter während der Schwangerschaft trinken und wird oft nie oder
erst sehr spät diagnostiziert.
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