The Daily Mail reports that "Up to 70 per cent of visits to hospital casualty departments are alcohol-related."
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A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that pregnant women who binge drink early in their pregnancy increase the likelihood that their babies will be born with oral clefts.
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Maternal alcohol drinking during pregnancy appears to be associated with conduct problems in children, independently of other risk factors, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Women should not drink alcohol while pregnant or planning to become pregnant, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians was told on May 8th in Melbourne, Australia.
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In a survey of non-indigenous West Australian women, 79.8 percent reported drinking alcohol in the three months before becoming pregnant.
Nearly half of the women (46.7%) surveyed reported that their pregnancy was unplanned.
More than half (58.7%) drank alcohol during pregnancy despite recommendations of abstinence.
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