Emily Travis, Miss Illinois Outstanding Teen in 2008, will visit the Quad-Cities later this month to talk about her life as a high-functioning survivor of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The "rotting ...

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders could affect between 1 and 5 percent of children in the United States. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images By the time kids diagnosed with attention deficit ...

More U.S. children than previously thought may be suffering from neurological damage because their mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy, according to a new study. The study, published Tuesday in the ...

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and Down syndrome are both conditions that are present at birth. While they both affect facial appearance, development, and physical health, they have different causes.

Experts from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, have expanded and updated widely used guidelines established in 2005 for the diagnosis ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Gov. Henry McMaster has officially made September Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month. Two state agencies want to get the word out about this 100 percent ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. According to the US Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects in ...

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 ...

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) affects an estimated 1.1% to 5% of first-graders in the United States. FAS is a type of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), which can develop due to alcohol exposure ...