The authors of a recent study have recommended improvements to commonly used assessments of health care and social service providers' attitudes about prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol ...
In recent weeks, the Australian and Northern Territory governments announced new funding to address the longstanding, much-publicised challenges facing Central Australia. The promised A$250 million ...
Re: “Psychologist: School shooter suffered fetal alcohol damage” [Sept. 12, Nation]: As parents of a 32-year-old woman with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), we want the community to know that ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) ...
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 ...
Experts from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, have expanded and updated widely used guidelines established in 2005 for the diagnosis ...
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 ...