Get the latest tech news
Shedding light on alcohol's long shadow
Sometimes a single patient alters a career, as with Chan’s Shchetinina.
When the baby survives, the effects often go unnoticed until school age, when performance, behavior and even routines that children typically carry out independently — getting up in the morning, making the bed, putting on clothes — become a challenge. She might have gone her whole life without asking the question, never mind enrolling at Harvard, if it wasn’t for the mother she met 15 years ago at a crisis center in her hometown of Petrozavodsk, a Russian city about 260 miles from St. Petersburg. A handmade brooch of forget-me-nots given to Shchetinina by a former client.The crisis center had ties to a Minnesota nonprofit, today called the Proof Alliance, that focuses on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Or read this on Hacker News
