IF PREGNANT women can’t give up drinking there might one day be a drug they can take to protect their fetuses from brain damage.
of Texas A&M University gave pregnant sheep alcohol and then doxapram, a drug that counteracts some of the effects of ethanol. He found the drug stopped the alcohol from destroying cells in the fetuses’ brains (American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, ). “The best solution is not drinking, but when education has done everything it can, and women still drink, we have to look for alternatives,” he says.
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