New Zealand Herald
(New Zealand) - Women admit drinking while pregnant
Despite this, a
study published by respected British site BMJ Open last week found up
to 80 per cent of New Zealand women have admitted drinking at some
stage of their pregnancy.
South Washington
County Bulletin (USA) - Cottage Grove teen lobbies for those with
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Recent high school
graduate Gary Riege is a science and math whiz. He’s also a Star
Wars fanatic, avid computer science techie and Advanced Placement
student.
AllAfrica.com
(South Africa) - Northern Cape Ravaged By Substance Abuse
The Portfolio
Committee has started its oversight visit to the Northern Cape with a
meeting with the MEC for Social Development, Mr Mxolisi Sokatsha, who
revealed the province is ravaged by foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
(FASD).
Irish Times
(Ireland) - Alcohol and pregnancy
Your editorial
(July 8th) highlighted the significant public health concerns posed
by drinking during pregnancy, pointing out that more than 45 per cent
of Irish women engaging in binge-drinking during the first trimester.
Bustle - Drinking
During Pregnancy Can Now Be Detected In A Baby’s First Poop.
(Seriously.)
As it turns out,
there’s a whole lot more to baby poop than meets the eye. (Just
hear me out for a second.) A recent study by Case Western Reserve
University found that testing a baby’s first poop can reveal if
their mother drank during her pregnancy — which is pretty huge.
The Inquisitr
(USA) - Dr. Carl Bell Says Fetal Alcohol Syndrome ‘Biggest
Public Health Problem For African-Americans Since Slavery’
Dr. Carl Bell, a
retired professor of psychiatry and public health at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, currently a staff psychiatrist at Jackson
Park Hospital, calls Fetal Alcohol Syndrome the “biggest public
health problem for African-Americans since slavery.” Dr. Bell has
treated patients for over 40 years.
NEWS.com.au
(Australia) - Why drinking alcohol while pregnant is like playing
Russian roulette
DR GINNI Mansberg,
a well-known Australian GP, has some sobering words for pregnant
women who enjoy the occasional glass of wine.
Infinity House
(UK) - FASD Is Completely Avoidable, So Why Are So Many Children
Born With It?
“I thought it
was good for him” stated Sam, mother to 11 year-year-old Stanley
who suffers from FASD as a result of his mother drinking while
pregnant.
VIDEOS and
MATERIAL
Alcohol-Free
Pregnancy - NOFAS Webinar: The Role of the Social Worker in
Preventing, Identifying and Treating FASD
This webinar will
examine the role of the social worker in the prevention,
identification and treatment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
INTERNATIONAL FASD AWARENESS DAY -
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
September 9 is
celebrated annually as International FASD Awareness Day to promote
education and awareness efforts on FASD. FASDs are completely
preventable by abstaining from alcohol while pregnant. Despite myths,
there is no scientific evidence available that sets a “safe”
amount of alcohol that will not affect the developing fetus.
AttitudeLive -
MiniDoc: Justice For FASD
Being an
adolescent male can be hard. But add to that an invisible disability
affecting how you learn, how you think and how you behave… it can
soon become a nightmare.
Alcohol
Healthwatch (New Zealand) - Ignore FASD at your peril
Christine Rogan –
Health Promotion Advisor, Alcohol Healthwatch - comments on the
implications of the Privy Council decision on Teina Pora’s appeal.
Canadian
Institutes of Health Research - How can we improve diagnosis –
and quality of life – for people with fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder?
For Dr. James
Davie of the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, each
human cell is like a compact disc full of music that never changes,
and the field of epigenetics is the CD player that decides which song
gets played.
COMING UP
The 7th National Biennial Conference
on Adolescents and Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Contribute your
knowledge and research! The Call for Abstracts is open until
September 11, 2015.
FASworld-Jahrestagung am 25./26.
September 2015: FASD – eine Herausforderung
Alkoholkonsum in
der Schwangerschaft ist die häufigste Ursache für nicht genetisch
bedingte kindliche Fehlbildungen. In Deutschland werden jährlich ca.
4.000 bis 10.000 Kinder mit einer fetalen Alkoholspektrumstörung
(FASD) geboren.
RESEARCH
PLoS One -
Prenatal alcohol exposure and congenital heart defects: a
meta-analysis
There are still
inconsistent conclusions about the association of prenatal alcohol
drinking with congenital heart defects (CHDs). We conducted this
meta-analysis to investigate the association between prenatal alcohol
exposure and the risk of overall CHDs and the CHDs subtypes.
American Journal
of Physiology: Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology -
Prenatal alcohol exposure alters methyl metabolism and programs
serotonin transporter and glucocorticoid receptor expression in brain
Prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE) programs the fetal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
(HPA) axis, resulting in HPA dysregulation and hyperresponsiveness to
stressors in adulthood. Molecular mechanisms mediating these
alterations are not fully understood.
Epigenomics -
Associative DNA methylation changes in children with prenatal
alcohol exposure
Prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE) can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).
Previously, we assessed PAE in brain tissue from mouse models,
however whether these changes are present in humans remains unknown.
Neurotoxicology
and Teratology - Low and moderate prenatal ethanol exposure of
mice during gastrulation or neurulation delays neurobehavioral
development
Importantly, we
showed that brief exposure to low dose ethanol, if administered
during vulnerable periods of neuroanatomical development, results in
significant neurobehavioral delays in neonatal mice. We thus expand
concerns about alcohol consumption during the 3rd and 4th weeks of
human pregnancy to include occasional light to moderate drinking.
Maternal and Child
Health Journal - Dose and timing of prenatal alcohol exposure and
maternal nutritional supplements: developmental effects on
6-month-old infants
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders are more common in disadvantaged populations.
Environmental factors, like suboptimal nutrition, may potentiate the
developmental effects of prenatal alcohol exposure.
Toxicology and
Applied Pharmacology - Prenatal ethanol exposure-induced adrenal
developmental abnormality of male offspring rats and its possible
intrauterine programming mechanisms
Fetal adrenal
developmental status is the major determinant of fetal tissue
maturation and offspring growth. We have previously proposed that
prenatal ethanol exposure (PEE) suppresses fetal adrenal
corticosterone (CORT) synthesis.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - A review of the history of
attitudes toward drinking in pregnancy
It is now well
accepted in pediatrics and obstetrics that prenatal alcohol is a
teratogenic agent and the primary causative factor underlying fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), although for the majority of the
20th century that knowledge was either unknown or ignored.
Alcohol Research:
Current Reviews - Advances in diagnosis and treatment of fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders: from animal models to human studies
Prenatal alcohol
exposure can cause a number of physical, behavioral, cognitive, and
neural impairments, collectively known as fetal alcohol spectrum
disorders (FASD). This article examines basic research that has been
or could be translated into practical applications for the diagnosis
or treatment of FASD.
Alcohol Research:
Current Reviews - Utilization of magnetic resonance imaging in
research involving animal models of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
It is well
recognized that fetal alcohol exposure can profoundly damage the
developing brain. The term fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)
describes the range of deficits that result from prenatal alcohol
exposure.
Journal of Applied
Toxicology - Angiogenesis is repressed by ethanol exposure during
chick embryonic development
It is now known
that excess alcohol consumption during pregnancy can cause fetal
alcohol syndrome to develop. However, it is not known whether excess
ethanol exposure could directly affect angiogenesis in the embryo or
angiogenesis being indirectly affected because of ethanol-induced
fetal alcohol syndrome.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Gesundheitsstadt
Berlin (Germany) - Übergewicht in der Schwangerschaft hat ernste
Folgen für das Kind
Übergewicht
gefährdet nicht nur werdende Mütter, sondern vor allem das Kind.
Der Geburtsmediziner und Vorstandsvorsitzende der Stiftung für das
behinderte Kind Prof. Dr. Joachim Dudenhausen erläutert im Gespräch,
welche gesundheitlichen Schäden drohen.
AgoraVox Italia
(Italy) - Tutto quell’alcol in gravidanza
Bere in gravidanza
è un fenomeno molto diffuso, ma sempre più studi confermano i
rischi anche sulle quantità di alcol moderate. Perché il messaggio
non arriva alle mamme?
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