Pregnant women don't necessarily need to forgo the occasional drink during holiday get-togethers this month, according to recent research. Studies suggest light drinking during pregnancy may have no ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. February 2, 2009 — Occasional binge drinking during pregnancy in the absence of moderate daily levels of drinking is associated with child mental ...

TUESDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- One of the cardinal rules for expectant moms: don't drink. But a new study out of Denmark is throwing that maxim into doubt. It finds that 5-year-olds whose ...

A simple information sheet may help prevent harms caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. A study just published in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research found that women who reviewed a flyer with ...

A study among over 7000 women in 11 European countries shows the proportion of women in Europe who drink alcohol when they know they are pregnant is lowest in Norway and highest in the UK. The ...

Drinking a low or moderate level of alcohol in early pregnancy is not linked to developmental problems in five-years-olds, researchers say. The Danish research, published in the BJOG journal, ...

Thousands of pregnant women continue to take alcohol while pregnant despite unwavering advice to the contrary. This begs the question, is it safe for pregnant women to drink alcohol during pregnancy?

It is an alarming truth: while much attention has been paid to the role of maternal drinking in the development of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a newly unveiled dimension of risk is ...