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A baby with FAS; his lifetime medical and welfare costs are estimated by some to be as high as US$5 million. [1] Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a spectrum of permanent and often devastating birth-defect syndromes caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. The main effect of fetal alcohol exposure is brain damage, which can be caused during any trimester, because the fetus's brain continues to develop throughout the entire pregnancy. The brain damage i ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
- National Center for Health Statistics
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation http://www.marchofdimes.com/
- Dept. of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/index.html
- Job Accommodation Network http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Publication Distribution Center
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, HHS http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
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