Fetal alcohol syndrome: law and ethics.

Lancet

Surrey Border Partnership Trust, Bracketts Resource Centre, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0QA, UK.

Published: April 2007

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60542-XDOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

fetal alcohol
4
alcohol syndrome
4
syndrome law
4
law ethics
4
fetal
1
syndrome
1
law
1
ethics
1

Similar Publications

Control of precision grip in children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure.

Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken)

December 2024

Department of Psychology, Center for Behavioral Teratology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.

Background: Fine motor skill deficits have been reported for children with histories of prenatal alcohol exposure, but little is known whether impaired motor skill extends to the regulation of precision grip control.

Methods: Children with (n = 15) and without (n = 17) histories of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure used their dominant hand to grasp, lift, and hold in space a small-instrumented object with a mass of 19 g. Object mass was also experimentally increased by separately adding two aluminum cubes with mass of 200 and 400 g.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are among the most common neurodevelopmental disabilities. Individuals with FASD experience postnatal adversity (PA; i.e.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Introduction: Pediatric neurology provides care for children with complex developmental disorders with environmental, genetic, metabolic, and teratogenic etiologies. Common neurodevelopmental conditions include attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism spectrum disorder. However, only minimal attention from pediatric neurology journals has been devoted to fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to compare phenylephrine boluses versus prophylactic infusion in parturients undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal or combined spinal-epidural anesthesia on feto-maternal outcomes.

Methods: Medline, Embase, Cochrane, and US Clinical registry databases were searched. Studies comparing phenylephrine boluses (both therapeutic and prophylactic) with infusion (both fixed- and variable-rate) assessing various feto-maternal outcomes were included.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Introduction: Alcohol use during pregnancy is a significant public health concern due to its adverse outcomes for the mother and developing fetus. This study aims to estimate the national and state-wise prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy in India and examine associated social, demographic and health-related correlates using data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) conducted in 2019-2020.

Methods: Data from NFHS-5, a large-scale, nationally representative survey, were analysed.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!