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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Doc Chat: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Sound Medicine

Air date: November 25, 2007

Hosts: Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD

Interview: David Crabb, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

Here's an interesting pair of statistics for you: 60% of women of child-bearing age drink alcohol. And nearly 50 percent of pregnancies are unplanned.

So, it's easy to see why there is so much attention given to understanding the risks of fetal alcohol exposure -- especially in the early weeks, before a woman knows she is pregnant.

Some new research was published this fall that suggests there may be a genetic reason why some babies of mothers who drink alcohol develop fetal alcohol syndrome -- while others don't.

We asked our own Dr. David Crabb to take a look at this study, recently published in the journal Biological Psychiatry and give us his thoughts on it.

Dr. David Crabb chairs the Department of Medicine at the IU School of Medicine, and he specializes in research on addictions.

Additional Resources:

* Get details on the fetal alcohol research published in the September 21, 2007, issue of Biological Psychiatry.

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