Irish Examiner (Ireland) - Foetal
Alcohol Syndrome: Doctors unaware of dangers
A NATIONAL survey
of paediatric doctors reveals a worrying percentage of them are
unaware of one of the major causes of preventable developmental delay
in children.
Waikato Times (New Zealand) - Foetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – an invisible generation of sufferers
A teenage boy
burgles a house, gets caught and is sent straight to bootcamp. The
young man is whipped into shape by a daily diet of early-morning
starts and army drills.
Stuff.co.nz (New
Zealand) - Children's Commissioner calls for universal disability
screening for kids at age five
His comments come
as new Otago University legal research focuses on Foetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and a Ministry of Health plan to improve its
detection and diagnosis, as well as education for pregnant mothers,
gets underway.
Health Essentials
from Cleveland Clinic - Why More and More Babies Are Born Addicted
The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention reports that the incidence of babies
born in a state of opioid withdrawal, called neonatal abstinence
syndrome (NAS), rose 383 percent between 2000 and 2012 in 28 states.
Canadian Family
(Canada) - How FASD Impacts Us All
While his children
have FASD, it is not what defines them. Just like anyone else, they
have their strengths and needs.
The Prevention
Conversation - MANY WOMEN STILL DRINK ALCOHOL WHEN TRYING TO GET
PREGNANT
About half of
pregnant women in the United States drink alcohol around the time
they become pregnant or in early pregnancy, usually before they know
they are expecting, a new study suggests.
Texas Health and
Human Services (USA) - Leading Cause of Intellectual Disabilities
Is Preventable
Prenatal alcohol
exposure affects more children annually than spina bifida, Down
syndrome, childhood cancer and childhood diabetes combined — 2 to 5
percent of all children.
Parliamentary
Monitoring Group (South Africa) - Foetal Alcohol Syndrome:
FASFacts briefing
FASFacts, an
non-profit orgnanisation dealing with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome based in
the Western Cape, explained its goals and strategies. In South Africa
at least three million people have fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and
approximately six million have partial FAS and other FAS disorders.
Minnesota News
Network (USA) - Advocates want state-funded services for those
with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Advocates are at
the State Capitol today, asking lawmakers for funding for services
for those with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Alberta
- Alberta FASD Conference (October 24-27, 2017)
We are happy to
invite you to join us and our partners at the 2017 National Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Conference in Calgary, Alberta on
October 24-27, 2017.
VIDEOS and
MATERIALS
Omaha.com -
Raising children with fetal alcohol syndrome
Nora Boesem of
Newell, South Dakota, talks about the challenges of raising nine
children with fetal alcohol syndrome. The children were adopted by
Boesem and her husband, Randy.
MOFAS - MOFAS:
School to Prison Pipeline PSA
As many as 1 in 20
U.S. school children may have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. FASD
is a prenatal brain injury that can make school difficult. Without
the proper interventions, some students are at a higher risk for
getting into trouble with the law.
Joanna Friedman |
MAGNIFY - William’s Story for The Alliance for Children’s
Rights
The Alliance for
Children’s Rights protects the rights of impoverished, abused and
neglected children and youth. By providing free legal services and
advocacy, the Alliance ensures children have safe, stable homes,
healthcare, and the education they need to thrive.
Kent Online (UK) -
Rachel Jackson talks about life with FASD
A 14-year-old girl
has been diagnosed with a list of disabilities, caused by Foetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder because her birth mother drunk whilst
pregnant.
FASD Helping Hands
Leeds (UK) - Law Enforcement & FASD
This guide is part
of a program designed to increase your awareness of disabilities
caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol and to help you be more
effective in your investigations when dealing with individuals with
FASD.
RESEARCH
Alcoholism -
Prevalence of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in the State of Texas as
Assessed by Phosphatidylethanol in Newborn Dried Blood Spot Specimens
Results of this
first systematic statewide PAE prevalence study demonstrate that PAE
might be more prevalent than previously thought. Active case
ascertainment efforts for FASD coupled with systematic objective
assessment of PAE should expand to the national level to better
estimate public health needs required to provide adequate services
for children affected by PAE.
Journal of
Pediatric Neuropsychology - Neuropsychological Aspects of
Prevention and Intervention for FASD in South Africa
Twenty years of
collaborative epidemiology research in South Africa have revealed the
highest reported rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in
the world.
University of New
York - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Reading Comprehension:
What Works and What Does Not?
The purpose of
this research is to not only explore the nature of FASD, but also aid
in expanding the understanding of teachers and educators regarding
particular teaching and learning strategies that may address the
unique literacy needs of students diagnosed with FASD.
Texas A and M
University - Advanced Imaging of Disease: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Advanced imaging
techniques are being increasingly utilized as quantitative biomarkers
and outcome parameters to identify and monitor disease and evaluate
new treatments. Validation of these techniques in animal models is
imperative to reliably interpret results and apply them clinically in
humans.
Alcohol -
Epigenetic mediators and consequences of excessive alcohol
consumption
Alcohol
consumption can affect the epigenome across the lifespan and
generations. Further research into epigenetic changes may allow for
the identification of biomarkers and the creation of novel
therapeutics.
Journal of Women's
Health - Alcohol Use During Pregnancy or Breastfeeding: A National
Survey in France
Daily alcohol use
during pregnancy or breastfeeding was limited, while binge drinking
in early pregnancy was reported by a large proportion of women.
Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of drinkers varied
across drinking patterns.
Neuroscience and
Behavioral Physiology - Dynamics of Histological Changes in the
Frontal Cortex of the Brain in Rats Subjected to Antenatal Exposure
to Alcohol
The aim of the
present work was to undertake a comparative study of the effects of
prenatal alcoholization of the histological characteristics of
neurons in the frontal cortex of the brains of rats of different
ages.
Alcohol - Alcohol
effects on the epigenome in the germline: Role in the inheritance of
alcohol-related pathology
Excessive alcohol
exposure has severe health consequences, and clinical and animal
studies have demonstrated that disruptions in the epigenome of
somatic cells, such as those in brain, are an important factor in the
development of alcohol-related pathologies, such as alcohol-use
disorders (AUDs) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).
Virginia Henderson
International Nursing e-Repository - Interprofessional
Collaborative Partnerships to Create Healthy Environments:
Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
This
interprofessional national network and discipline specific working
groups is providing evidence-based materials for the clinical work
environment for any practicing nurse who advocates a healthy
lifestyle environment for their clients.
Danish National
Research Database - Biomarkers for the detection of prenatal
alcohol exposure (PAE)
Alcohol exposure
during pregnancy can cause adverse effects to the fetus, because it
interferes with fetal development, leading to later physical and
mental impairment. The most common clinical tool to determine fetal
alcohol exposure is maternal self-reporting.
Journal of Nepal
Health Research Council - Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy and
Postpartum Period and its Predictors in Sindhupalchowk District,
Nepal
A substantial
proportion of women in Nepal consume alcohol and homebrewed alcoholic
beverages are the most common type of alcohol. Alcohol being a part
of tradition and culture in Nepal and evidences suggesting even low
to moderate dose of alcohol having impacts on the birth outcomes, we
aimed at exploring the alcohol consumption pattern during pregnancy
and postpartum period along with its predictors.
A Journal on
Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence - An
investigation of intra-individual variability in children with fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)
Intra-individual
variability (IIV) is defined as systematic within-person variation in
performance either across test sessions (e.g., test/retest
performance on the same task) or in one session (e.g., variations in
performance on multiple trials of a single task).
Journal of
Alcoholism & Drug Dependence - Fetal Alcohol Exposure: The
Common Toll
It has become
increasingly clear over the last years that alcohol exposure during
fetal development can have detrimental effects on various organ
systems, and these effects are exerted by alcohol through multiple
means, including effects on free radical formation, cellular
apoptosis, as well as gene expression.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Kehitysvammaliitto
(Finland) - Liian pieni juomaan -kampanja FASD-nuorten
vertaisryhmätoiminnan tueksi
Suomessa syntyy
vuosittain 600-3000 lasta, joilla on jonkinasteinen alkoholivaurio.
Vaikeimmin vammautuneet lapset ovat kehitysvammaisia.
Hamburger
Abendblatt (Germany) - Ein Gläschen Sekt kann schon zu viel sein
Etwa 10.000 Kinder
kommen pro Jahr in Deutschland geschädigt zur Welt, weil die Mütter
in der Schwangerschaft Alkohol getrunken haben.
NOZ - Neue
Osnabrücker Zeitung (Germany) - Das eine Glas? Osnabrücker
Mütter über ihr Leben mit FASD-Kindern
Osnabrück. „Mach
dich mal locker, du bist schwanger und nicht krank.“ Durch Sprüche
wie diese lassen sich viele Schwangere dazu hinreißen, in geselliger
Runde doch ein Glas mitzutrinken. Welche Folgen dieses eine Glas
haben kann, berichten Mütter aus der Selbsthilfegruppe FASD
Osnabrück.
DIE WELT (Germany)
- 0,0 Promille, sonst drohen schreckliche Folgen
Wenn werdende
Mütter trinken: 300.000 Menschen in Deutschland leiden am Fetalen
Alkoholsyndrom. Sie sind von Geburt an dauerhaft geschädigt.
Forscher warnen, dass auch kleinste Mengen gefährlich sind.
Stiri Zilnic
(Romania) - FEMEILE ÎNSĂRCINATE NU AU VOIE SĂ BEA ALCOOL, NU-I
AȘA? NOILE STUDII SUGEREAZĂ ALTCEVA
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