Posted on 05/11/02
New test can reveal baby's alcohol exposure
TORONTO -- Doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children have invented a test on the tar-like first bowel movements of newborns for chemical clues that their mothers drank alcohol in pregnancy, a breakthrough in the detective work of diagnosing fetal alcohol syndrome.
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