International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day is coming up on September 9th. This special day is a reminder to avoid alcohol if you’re pregnant. Many people know you shouldn’t ...

Fetal alcohol syndrome can cause behavioral, mental, and physical issues that continue into adulthood. Symptoms include behavioral and learning difficulties. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a form of ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: Here's a statistic that may surprise you. An estimated 1% to 5% of school-aged children in the United States have fetal alcohol spectrum ...

Be watching for several local bridges and numerous other landmarks to be lit brightly in red on September 9th. September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Month, with the ninth day designated ...

Symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) typically emerge in early childhood but may present differently during a person’s teenage years and early adulthood. Behavioral therapy, medications, parental ...

When Maggie May McHugh was told she had Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) by her social worker, at the age of 15, everything started to make sense. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) can ...

Out of 206 fourth-grade students, 19 met criteria for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, according to a pilot study at the University of Gothenburg. The results indicate that birth defects caused by ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many children adopted from Eastern European countries may have been exposed to damaging levels of alcohol in the womb, a new study suggests. In a study of 71 children ...

When her daughter was in preschool, Renee Orr started teaching her a hugely important lesson: how to stop and look for cars before crossing the street. Her little friend Ella’s house was just across ...

Celisse Olivia Bibr is a Research Assistant for Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network (CanFASD). Jacqueline Pei is Lead of the Intervention Network Action Team for the Canada Fetal ...

Previous reports have indicated that between 20% and 60% of pregnant women in Ireland consume alcohol during pregnancy. Data on alcohol consumption by pregnant women in Ireland have previously only ...

Elizabeth Jane Elliott receives funding from the Australian Department of Health and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, including a Leadership Fellowship. She is a Board ...