Using alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or other substances during pregnancy can harm the developing fetus, even when the risks are not always obvious, a West Virginia University psychiatrist warns.
Sep 8, 2025
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Exposure to alcohol during the first weeks of embryonic development changes gene activity and cellular metabolism. In laboratory cultures, it was found that the first cells of the nervous system are the most sensitive to ...
Jun 19, 2025
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Health professionals will have access to national clinical practice guidelines to help assess and diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), following a 4-year research project led by The University of Queensland.
May 13, 2025
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Susan de Meyer's horses have different effects on different children. Hyperactive kids learn to be a little quieter around them while nonverbal children are moved to communicate and to bond with them.
Apr 21, 2025
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Out of 206 fourth-grade students, 19 met criteria for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. This was found in a pilot study conducted at the University of Gothenburg. The results indicate that birth defects caused by alcohol ...
Apr 4, 2025
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Experts are concerned that the alcohol industry may be deliberately delaying the inclusion of Government-mandated pregnancy warnings across its products, after new research showed only 63% of alcoholic beverages displayed ...
Feb 4, 2025
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Barely a month goes by without news of children and adolescents who are imprisoned and being mistreated in youth detention.
Oct 9, 2024
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The woman came in crying. She was disheveled and pregnant, and appeared to be intoxicated. She had a 5-year-old girl in tow and was looking for help from the crisis center where Anna Shchetinina volunteered.
Oct 4, 2024
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Fifty years after it was first coined, the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) now does more harm than good and should be dropped, according to a group of Canadian doctors led by University of Alberta developmental ...
Sep 24, 2024
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Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis. A systematic failure to provide decent and affordable housing means far too many people are ending up homeless. Rigid and unresponsive policies perpetuate adversity and fuel stigma ...
Sep 19, 2024
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