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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Learning Center

Prevention could include:
Avoiding alcohol during pregnancy prevents fetal alcohol syndrome. Counseling can help prevent recurrence in women who have already had a child with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 8, 2009
Prevention of FAS is the key to effectively addressing the problem. Prevention efforts must include public education efforts aimed at the entire population, not just women of childbearing age; appropriate treatment for women with high-risk drinkin...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Over-the-counter birth control methods are used during sex to avoid pregnancy and sometimes to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs. They can be purchased by anyone, without a doctor's prescription.
Source:ADAM
Date:February 19, 2008
Contraception is the use of a method, device, or medication to prevent pregnancy by interfering with ovulation, fertilization, and/or implantation. Another term for contraception is birth control.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Contraception is the use of any of various methods to prevent pregnancy. Family planning, in contrast, involves the use of contraception or other measures to limit the number of children and plan the timing and spacing of births. Contraception has...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Contraception (birth control) prevents pregnancy by interfering with the normal process of ovulation, fertilization, and implantation. There are different kinds of birth control that act at different points in the process.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Contraception (birth control) is the prevention of conception (pregnancy). In the United States, 60% of boys and 50% of girls between the ages of 15 and 19 are sexually active, yet only half of these adolescents use contraception the first time th...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Contraception (birth control) prevents pregnancy by interfering with the normal process of ovulation, fertilization, Various types of contraception. ( Photo Researchers, Inc. Reproduced by permission.) and implantation. There are different kinds o...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
At different points in life most people experience some kind of crisis. A crisis is defined as a situation or event in which a person feels overwhelmed or has difficulty coping. A crisis might be caused by an event such as the death of a family me...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
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