Category: FASD News & Events

NIAAA celebrates 50 years of advancing alcohol research.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (17 Nov 20200 NIAAA celebrates 50 years of advancing alcohol. To commemorate five decades of biomedical discovery in the alcohol and health field, NIAAA will host a virtual scientific symposium,“Alcohol Across the Lifespan: 50 Years of Evidence-Based Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment Research”on 30 November and 1 December The […]

More warnings needed on fetal alcohol effect

The Children’s Commissioner wants to see more done to warn women of the risks of drinking during pregnancy.  Judge Andrew Becroft has just returned from a meeting with Australia’s children’s commissioners, where the connection between fetal alcohol syndrome and crime was discussed.