Should mums-to-be who drink be branded criminals?

A landmark case addressing this question is currently underway in the United Kingdom.

Lawyers for a seven-year-old child with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome,...

Brian Easton, Larry Burd, Anna Sarnocinska-Hart, Jürgen Rehm, Svetlana Popova

Objective: The purpose of this study was to estimate the productivity losses due to morbidity of individuals with...

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In January 1998 five days of freezing rain collapsed the electrical grid of the Canadian province of Québec. The Read More

"...new research suggests that as many as one in 20 U.S. children may...

RESULTS: Total dysmorphology scores differentiate significantly fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and partial FAS (PFAS) from one another and from unexposed controls. Alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND) is not as clearly...

No one's sure how many Australians are affected by foetal alcohol spectrum disorders, but the consequences for those who are can be devastating.

FOETAL alcohol syndrome in indigenous communities is moving into second and third generations as impaired parents affected by the disorder struggle to raise offspring

WA Chief Justice Wayne Martin has said it is not appropriate for people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) to be indefinitely locked up under laws for the mentally...