An individual with fetal alcohol syndrome can incur a lifetime of health costs of over $800,000 (US). When a woman drinks during pregnancy the alcohol passes through the placenta directly into the ...

This is why women are advised to quit drinking before they start trying for a baby, to ensure the entire first trimester is free from alcohol. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) was previously ...

The new Know Alcohol calculator was developed by researchers at UVic’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR). 1:58 Dry January catching on The tool allows people to calculate ...

Baby boomers are driving record levels of hospital ... “For too long there has been an unwillingness to lead on issues like smoking, alcohol harm and obesity, and we are determined to turn ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in his latest advisory that alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, following tobacco usage and obesity. He recommended ...

Women have been warned alcohol can increase their risk of developing dry eye syndrome. A study into the condition, which causes daily irritation due to insufficient or low-quality tears to ...

Taking a 30-day break from drinking alcohol can provide several health benefits. Among the biggest benefits, your risk of cancer and heart disease may decrease. You may also experience improved ...

The U.S. surgeon general is kicking off this Dry January by warning about the link between alcohol and increased cancer risk. The announcement has left many people wondering about the healthiest ...

At the hospital, a CT scan detected subdural hematoma, or a collection of blood between the brain and the skull—one of the symptoms typically associated with "shaken baby syndrome" (SBS), now ...

Per The Seattle Times, researchers believe the mother orca's newborn calf, who the Center for Whale Research discovered the calf on Friday, Dec. 20, and given the alpha-numeric designation J61 ...

“I’ll never forget him telling me, ‘You would probably know this as shaken baby syndrome,’” she says. Felecia, having once listened to a podcast that characterized the diagnosis as ...