The Guardian (UK )
- Smoking and drinking in pregnancy
'harms 10,000 babies in UK
Irish Medical Times (Ireland
A total of 81 per cent of women reported
alcohol consumption during the peri-conceptual period, the prevalence study of
alcohol exposure in pregnancy at the Coombe Women and Infants University
Hospital
Irish Independent (Ireland
AT least 145 babies were born in the
country's main maternity hospitals in just three years suffering from alcohol
withdrawal, new figures reveal.
Almost every day in Alberta
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome rates are on the
rise in West Virginia West Virginia
A Winnipeg
HealthCanal.com (Australia
A flagship Indigenous health care
initiative in Western Australia 's remote Fitzroy Valley
The West Australian (Australia
Federal and State health ministers are
being urged to support health warning labels on alcohol, including the
immediate introduction of advice for pregnant women.
The Northern Echo (UK
A NORTH-EAST consultant has voiced fears
that women are drinking too much in pregnancy – resulting in a huge hidden population
of damaged children. It follows a survey of the drinking habits of mums-to-be
which suggests hundreds of babies born every year in the region suffer from
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).
CBC.ca (Canada
Hospital researchers on P.E.I. have been
collecting and studying human meconium – the first stool – of every newborn
Islander.
Often all people see in a child with fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder is their bad behaviour. “The behaviours make it
difficult to deal with the kid in many cases,” said Allan Mountford, who
teaches in a special program that helps troubled teenagers transition to high
school.
The Fix - Alcoholism's Gender Gap is Closing Fast
As women rapidly chase down men in the
drinking stakes, one Harvard professor says alcoholism progresses faster in
females—and that all-women treatment groups are vital.
MATERIALS and EVENTS
The National Health Service Grampian (in Scotland
Eufasd.org - Second European Conference on FASD
Pre-Announcement: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders: Clinical and Biochemical Diagnosis, Screening and Follow-up.
RESEARCH
Coombe.ir - Drinking during pregnancy increases the risk of premature birth
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is
associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, premature birth, and low
birth weight. But there are onflicting reports about how much alcohol, if any,
it is safe for a pregnant woman to drink. New research, carried out in the Coombe Women
& Infants University
Hospital
Alcohol and Alcoholism - Universal Prevention is Associated with
Lower Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Northern
Cape , South
Africa
This, the first prevention study using FASD
outcomes, suggests that universal prevention might reduce FASD by ∼30% and have population-level effects. This supports intensifying
universal interventions where knowledge of harms of maternal drinking is low. These
efforts need to be accompanied by alcohol-dependence treatment to lower more
severe FASD forms.
Modulation
by the GABAB receptor siRNA of ethanol-mediated PKA-α, CaMKII, and p-CREB
intracellular signaling in prenatal rat hippocampal neurons
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a
developmental neuropathology resulting from in utero exposure to ethanol; many
of ethanol's effects are likely to be mediated by the neurotransmitter
γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
Meconium
Testing for Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters: A 2011 Status Report
The Canadian Association of Pediatric
Health Centres, working in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada
has recently published a toolkit to guide screening for identification of risk
of FAS/FASD.
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