NEWS and ARTICLES
Health24.com (USA) - Foetal alcohol
syndrome in US higher than suspected
Although drinking
during pregnancy has long been considered taboo, new research
suggests that at least 1 in 20 U.S. children may have health or
behavioural problems related to pre-birth alcohol exposure.
SBS (Australia) -
Indigenous Elders call for caution over FASD
Indigenous welfare
groups and Elders have urged the federal government not to stigmatise
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as part of moves to combat
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
The Australian
(Australia) - Void in data as fetal alcohol babies in crisis
FETAL Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders are at “crisis levels in many indigenous
communities”, according to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime
Minister, who will use a new report to argue for tougher welfare
rules to take control of the disorder.
BBC News -
'Stronger warnings needed' over pregnant women drinking
Campaigners and
doctors are calling for stronger warnings about drinking during
pregnancy, ahead of a legal test case on foetal alcohol syndrome.
Sydney Morning
Herald - Bottle babies: the devastation of foetal alcohol spectrum
disorders
No one's sure how
many Australians are affected by foetal alcohol spectrum disorders,
but the consequences for those who are can be devastating.
Stroud News and
Journal - Judges hear pregnancy 'crime' case
The Court of
Appeal has reserved its judgment on whether a pregnant woman
committed "a crime of violence" against her child when she
drank a "grossly excessive" amount of alcohol while
pregnant.
Growing Your Baby
(USA) - Study ‘1 in 20 U.S. Children May Have Health or
Behavioral Problems Related to Alcohol Exposure Before Birth’
Is it safe to
drink while you’re pregnant? Studies that have been released over
the past couple years have made the answer to this question a little
blurry. Some say yes, others absolutely no – and in between you
get the ones that say a glass of wine is fine…
The Stir (UK) -
Child Sues Mom for Drinking While She Was Pregnant
Can a fetus sue?
That's the question a London court will have to decide after a
7-year-old child's guardians have decided to sue the child's mother
for allegedly drinking heavily during her pregnancy.
MATERIALS
UNSW
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders - Strategies to address
information gaps
Health-care
providers and policy makers need accurate and timely data in a
useable format to monitor and prevent FASD. There is widespread
concern about the lack of information on FASD and the impact this has
on health-care planners and providers in managing the problem in a
timely and effective way.
RESEARCH
Journal of Studies
on Alcohol and Drugs - Productivity losses because of morbidity
attributable to fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Canada: a
demographic approach
About 0.03% of the
Canadian workforce experiences a loss of productivity because of
FASD-attributable morbidity, which translates to aggregate losses
ranging from $418 million Canadian dollars (CND) to $1.08 billion CND
annually.
Birth Defects
Research Part C: Embryo Today: Reviews - Neural crest development
in fetal alcohol syndrome
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder (FASD) is a leading cause of neurodevelopmental
disability. Some affected individuals possess distinctive
craniofacial deficits, but many more lack overt facial changes. An
understanding of the mechanisms underlying these deficits would
inform their diagnostic utility.
Pediatrics -
Prevalence and characteristics of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Total
dysmorphology scores differentiate significantly fetal alcohol
syndrome (FAS) and partial FAS (PFAS) from one another and from
unexposed controls. Alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder
(ARND) is not as clearly differentiated from controls.
Endocrinology -
Fetal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts Metabolic Signaling in
Hypothalamic Proopiomelanocortin Neurons via a Circadian Mechanism in
Male Mice
Early-life ethanol
feeding (ELAF) alters the metabolic function of proopiomelanocortin
(POMC)-producing neurons and the circadian expression of clock
regulatory genes in the hypothalamus. We investigated whether the
circadian mechanisms control the action of ELAF on metabolic
signaling genes in POMC neurons.
Prenatal Diagnosis
- Dose-response and time-response analysis of total fatty acid
ethyl esters in meconium as a biomarker of prenatal alcohol exposure
Little is known on
how the dose and timing of exposure co-influence the cumulative
concentration of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs) in meconium. The
objective of the study was to assess the cumulative concentration of
FAEEs in meconium as a biomarker of light, moderate, or heavy
prenatal alcohol exposure occurring at either first, second, or third
trimesters of pregnancy.
European Journal
of Neuroscience - Prenatal alcohol exposure and adolescent stress
- unmasking persistent attentional deficits in rats
Prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE) can produce a myriad of deficits. Unfortunately,
affected individuals may also be exposed to the stress of an adverse
home environment, contributing to deficits of attentional processes
that are the hallmark of optimal executive function.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Grafschafter
Nachrichten (Germany) - Wie Alkohol bei Schwangeren das Kind
schädigt
Jährlich werden
in Deutschland 4000 bis 5000 Kinder geboren, die geistig und
körperlich geschädigt sind, weil die Mütter während der
Schwangerschaft Alkohol getrunken haben. Die Kinder leiden am Fetalen
Alkoholsyndrom. Hierzu gab es einen Infoabend.
Mamme.it (Italy) -
BERE ALCOL IN GRAVIDANZA: UNA CAMPAGNA CI RICORDA CHE È UNA
PERICOLOSISSIMA ABITUDINE
Bere e fumare in
gravidanza sono due comportamenti molto dannosi per la salute del
feto; sembrerà banale, sembrerà una cosa ovvia, ma secondo alcune
statistiche ancora oggi, ogni anno, 1 bambino su 100 negli States e 1
su 200 in Europa nasce affetto dalla FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders), un termine che racchiude una serie di disturbi e
malattie, sia mentali che comportamentali, derivanti dal consumo
materno di alcol durante la gestazione.
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