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Abstaining From Alcohol During Pregnancy Still The Best Choice For Baby

Experts Call Mass Media Misrepresentation Of Recent Alcohol-Related Studies ‘Harmful’Brentwood, TN – “Children Of Mothers Who Drink Alcohol During Pregnancy ‘Better Behaved,’” and “Pour It Up Pregs,” coupled with images of smiling pregnant women sharing in a wine toast, are just some of the messages flooding news headlines in recent days following publicity of a study aimed at examining the behavioral outcomes of children whose mothers consumed alcohol during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) experts call the vast majority of the media’s misinterpretation of the studies potentially “

Researcher Credited With 1973 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Discovery Says Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy Still ‘Major Public Concern’ 40 Years Later

Aims To Raise Awareness During FASD Month With Launch Of Free Service For Pregnant WomenBrentwood, TN – It’s been 40 years since Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD, and David Smith, MD, first identified Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) after examining several children with similar traits who had all been born to chronic alcoholic mothers. Today, despite the well-documented spectrum of negative physical and mental effects alcohol can have on the developing fetus, Jones says it’s a “major public concern” that 1 in 13 women still drink alcohol during pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control

TUCSON TO HOST WORLD-RENOWNED BIRTH DEFECTS EXPERTS THIS WEEK; FIRST GATHERING FOR ‘MOTHERTOBABY’ SERVICES

Researchers Educate The Public About Medications & More During Pregnancy & BreastfeedingTucson, AZ – The non-profit Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), a prestigious professional society comprised of international leaders in the field of birth defects research, and representatives from the services it provides through the new MotherToBaby counseling phone line will gather at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort June 22 - 26 to share several ground-breaking study results. “Internationally-recognized speakers at this conference will provide cutting-edge research on everything

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