In a recent study published in BMC Medicine, researchers examined the association between exposure to alcohol in the periconceptional and prenatal periods and longitudinal growth of the fetus, ...

The study concluded there could be an association between drinking three months before pregnancy and potential adverse health and developmental problems in a newborn child. Still, the CDC currently ...

July 21, 2011 — Women should be screened for alcohol use at least annually and during the first trimester of pregnancy, according to new recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and ...

Exposure to alcohol in utero can have enduring health effects across the lifespan, including increased risks related to strokes in midlife, according to new research. The preclinical study found that ...

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), a leading cause of neurodevelopmental disorders, may affect as many as 1 in 20 school-aged children in the United States. Despite its prevalence, the exact ...

Alcohol exposure in early pregnancy can change gene function during the tightly regulated embryonic development, and consequently cause developmental disorders - especially neurodevelopmental ...

Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times more likely to develop alcohol use disorder than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet when ...

The recommendation of alcohol abstinence during pregnancy has long been made by experts on the basis that exposure to the substance can cause severe and irreversible damage to a developing baby.

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 ...

Exposure to infection and other immune stress in the womb increases the likelihood of alcohol misuse in adulthood, a risk that may be reduced through prenatal antioxidant treatment, a new Washington ...