The warnings are bold on alcohol labels: if you are pregnant, consuming alcohol could cause serious health problems for your baby. But pregnant women have been consuming alcohol for centuries. So how ...

Naltrexone has long been used to treat alcohol use disorder. Now it’s gaining attention as a tool for people who want to cut ...

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders could affect between 1 and 5 percent of children in the United States. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images By the time kids diagnosed with attention deficit ...

Neurobehavioral disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (ND-PAE) is a mental health condition that results from exposure to alcohol before birth. It is a type of fetal alcohol spectrum ...

Alicia Dougherty went viral on TikTok after posting a time-lapse video of her next level meal-prepping skills for her family of 10 children. But there’s so much more to Alicia and her family, or the ...

Exposure to alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). This condition can have behavioral, cognitive, and physical effects on the developing fetus. One common physical effect of ...

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 ...

Testing for fetal alcohol syndrome helps identify individuals who may have been affected by alcohol exposure before birth, allowing for interventions that can improve their well-being. Share on ...

Fetal alcohol syndrome is the most severe and preventable form of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, requiring specific diagnostic criteria. Obstetricians are crucial in preventing fetal alcohol ...

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 ...

When I was in graduate school at the University of Rochester, I attended a colloquium by Marshall Schecter, a psychiatrist from nearby Syracuse. His topic involved the extraordinarily high rate of ...

Little Ellie had fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Sept. 27, 2010— -- Lori and Craig Gertz, parents from Long Grove, Ill., were faced with a heartbreaking and unimaginable choice: to keep their ...