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Month: March 2018
Is FASD really 100% preventable?
A lot of progress has been made on effective FASD awareness and prevention strategies. Early efforts often used disrespectful tactics like unsettling pictures of
CanFASD Issue Paper: Cannabis Use During Pregnancy
Kelly D. Harding, PhD and Nancy Poole, PhD Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network ISSUE: In 2018, the Canadian government plans to introduce the
I AM A CAREGIVER! FOR A PERSON WITH FASD: Caregiver Resource Guide
The Prevention Conversation project and Edmonton and area Fetal Alcohol Network Society previously posted this new Caregiver Resource Guide. But… it was not the final
Maternal alcohol use early in pregnancy may be risk factor for infant abdominal malformation
Alcohol use early in the pregnancy by the mother may be a risk factor for a condition in which an infant’s intestines develop outside the
NIH releases first dataset from unprecedented study of adolescent brain development
The National Institutes of Health Tuesday released to the scientific community an unparalleled dataset from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. To date, more