Juneau Empire -
FASD strategies: A needs and strength-based Focus
It is natural for
Mary Katasse and her family to look lovingly upon a child in the
community who is behaving in a way that others may judge negatively.
She understands at a deep level the possible struggles of both the
child and parents; and she continues to educate us all about
difference and the importance of unconditional love.
Regina Leader-Post
- Boy's death exposes gaps in support for those with Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder
Despite concerns
raised about support for those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
(FASD) after the death of a young boy, a group that hoped to help
expand its services was stymied in its bid to get additional money
from the provincial budget.
Mail &
Guardian Online (South Africa) - 'I gave my children booze - and
now I fear for their future'
Tammy-Ann Julies*
remembers “feeding” her eldest son alcohol for the first time
about two years ago. It was a late Friday afternoon and the then
eight-year-old Owen* and his mother shared a 750ml bottle of Black
Label beer.
mirror.co.uk (UK)
- Hundreds of children left brain damaged by their mums drinking
during pregnancy
World Health
Organisation research suggests at least one in 100 babies – the
equivalent to about 7,500 – are born in the UK affected by their
mother’s drinking every year.
CBCNews (Canada) -
The Mothering Project aims to break cycle of addiction
Two years ago,
when Stephanie Wesley walked through the doors of The Mothering
Project, she was at rock bottom.
MATERIALS and
VIDEOS
ITV - The
Impact Of Drinking During Pregnancy Documentary 2015
This documentary
investigates the impact of drinking during pregnancy, meet four
people affected by foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a condition
present in roughly one in 100 babies born in Britain each year.
PHRP - Fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia – the future is prevention
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASD) are increasingly recognised throughout
Australia as important, but preventable, disorders that result in
lifelong problems with health and learning, mental health, behaviour
and substance misuse. The role of this article is to highlight
current efforts, which are in their infancy, to recognise and prevent
FASD in Australia.
FASCETS Canada -
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Consultation Education and Training
Services
FASCETS Canada’s
work is based on the neurobehavioural approach to Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) developed by Diane Malbin, MSW, founder of
FASCETS in Portland, USA. FASCETS Canada and its two founders have
been endorsed by FASCETS.
Alcohol-Free
Pregnancy - NOFAS Webinar: When Someone with an FASD is Arrested:
What You Need to Know
Though not
everyone with an FASD gets in trouble with the law, research shows
that these incidents occur far too frequently. This webinar will
discuss research on how commonly troubles with the law occurs for
people with FASD, and how many of the cognitive difficulties that
occur in FASD can lead to problems when interacting with police,
attorneys, and judges.
HealthINFONet -
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder resources for the justice system
Researchers at the
Telethon Kids Institute have developed a range of new resources to
help lawyers, judicial officers and other justice professionals
better deal with people who are impacted by Fetal alcohol spectrum
disorders (FASD).
RESEARCH
International
Journal of Molecular Sciences - In utero exposure to low-dose
alcohol induces reprogramming of mammary development and tumor risk
in MMTV-erbB-2 transgenic mice
There is
increasing evidence that prenatal exposure to environmental factors
may modify breast cancer risk later in life. This study aimed to
investigate the effects of in utero exposure to low-dose alcohol on
mammary development and tumor risk.
BMC Pregnancy and
Childbirth - Decision-making and evidence use during the process
of prenatal record review in Canada: a multiphase qualitative study
Prenatal records
are potentially powerful tools for the translation of best-practice
evidence into routine prenatal care. Although all jurisdictions in
Canada use standardized prenatal records to guide care and provide
data for health surveillance, their content related to risk factors
such as maternal smoking and alcohol use varies widely.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - Verbal learning and memory
impairment in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Previous studies
using the California Verbal Learning Test-Children's Version (CVLT-C)
to examine effects of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure on verbal
learning and memory have reported impaired information acquisition
(i.e., encoding), rather than retrieval, as the primary mechanism
underlying learning and memory impairment.
Frontiers in
Neuroscience - Eye movements reveal sexually dimorphic deficits in
children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
We examined the
accuracy and characteristics of saccadic eye movements in children
with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) compared with typically
developing control children.
Developmental
Dynamics - Using optical coherence tomography to rapidly phenotype
and quantify congenital heart defects associated with prenatal
alcohol exposure
The most commonly
used method to analyze congenital heart defects involves serial
sectioning and histology. However, this is often a time-consuming
process where the quantification of cardiac defects can be difficult
due to problems with accurate section registration.
Maternal and Child
Health Journal - Partner's influences and other correlates of
prenatal alcohol use
To investigate the
influence of partners on alcohol consumption in pregnant women within
the context of other factors. A Dutch nationwide online
cross-sectional study among 158 pregnant women and their partners was
conducted.
Frontiers -
Genetics and epigenetics of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Women drinking
during pregnancy can result in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
(FASD), which features neurodevelopmental deficit, facial
dysmorphology, growth retardation, and learning disability.
Epidemiol
Community Health - Alcohol consumption during pregnancy and
adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes
Lack of evidence
is not the same as evidence of absence of risk and, in this case, no
evidence of harm does not mean evidence of no harm; subsequently, no
amount of alcohol during pregnancy can be considered safe based on
research evidence.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
EuNews - Alcol:
il Parlamento propone di indicarne le calorie sulle etichette
Una nuova
strategia europea sull’alcool vuole informare il consumatore sul
contenuto nutrizionale delle bevande alcoliche concentrandosi
soprattutto sui minori e la guida in stato di ebrezza.
Ant1iwo (Greece) -
Υποχρεωτική πια η αναγραφή των θερμίδων
στα αλκοολούχα
Προτάσεις
για τη σήμανση περιεχομένου θερμίδων
των αλκοολούχων ποτών θα πρέπει να
υποβάλει η Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή, το
αργότερο το 2016, τόνισε το ΕΚ χθες Τετάρτη.
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