FASD news
Alcohol companies must be responsible
NEW
Letter from Michele Savage to the Irish Examiner, Friday, September 23, 2011
Born with a craving for alcohol
NEW
Fiona Gartland's article in The Irish Times, Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Coombe set to spearhead FAS alcohol intake project
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Mullally et al.: Prevalence, predictors and perinatal
outcomes of peri-conceptional alcohol exposure-retrospective cohort
study in an urban obstetric population in Ireland. BMC Pregnancy and
Childbirth 2011 11:27.
Health warnings to be put on alcoholic drink cans, bottles
The Irish Times, Monday April 11
Many women still smoking and drinking in pregnancy
The Irish Times - Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Alcohol and babies don't mix at all
Irish Examiner December 1st 2010.
No data on impact of alcohol on foetus
Article in the Irish Examiner by Claire O'Sullivan, 28 May 2009.
March issue of Iceberg news letter
Article in irishhealth.com 9 September 2008
Govt urged to put pregnancy warning on alcohol
Article in irishhealth.com 9 September 2008
Women urged not to drink while pregnant
Article in irishhealth.com 9 September 2008
Mums-to-be told 'no safe level of drink'
Article in Herald.ie 27 August 2008
Still no alerts on alcohol for mums-to-be
Article in Irish Independent 25 August 2008
Keep it corked: heed the warnings during pregnancy.
Article in The Irish Independent, 22 October 2007
Alcohol label to warn of health risk during pregnancy
The Irish Times 15th Ocober, 2007
RTE News segement on The Coombe Report
Friday March 2, 2007. Requires Real Player
60% of pregnant women drink alcohol - report
From:ireland.com, Friday, 2nd March, 2007
Alcohol in the frame. Again.
Is alcohol to blame for the autism epidemic? Article on Indymedia, January 22 2007.
Irish Minister for Health "must tackle foetal alcohol risk.
Article published in the Sunday Independent May 21, 2006
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders had been mentioned in the following papers recently:
Irish Daily Mail, Thursday 9 February 2006
Sunday News of the World, Irish edition, Sunday April 9 2006
The Irish Independent Health and living Supplement, Monday 10 April 2006
None of these articles had electronic links.
Alcohol should carry warning for pregnant women'
Article published in The Irish Examiner November 25 2005
10% of pregnant women take six drinks a week.
Article published in The Irish Examiner November 24 2005
Twitches that indicate alcohol may hurt baby
Article published in Sunday Times Britain, November 20 2005
FAS Ireland meets with Minister
New research shows impact alcohol can have on expectant mothers
Article published in Daily Ireland November 7 2005
Britain's Streets of Booze.
NAP are kindly letting us view this book on line.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome ? Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment.
Edited by Kathleen Stratton, Cynthia Howe and Frederick Battaglia.
Published in 1996 by National Academy Press, Washington DC.
Research from Detroit
"Prenatal alcohol exposure can lead to lasting changes in cognitive processing".