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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Avoid alcohol, Government to tell pregnant women

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor

Published: 09 November 2007

The Government's health experts are to tell pregnant women to avoid alcohol. The advice, which is planned for the new year, is aimed at clearing up confusion caused by the Government's key independent health advisory body, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice), which suggested one or two glasses of wine a couple of times a week was safe.

Other health experts challenged this, and the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, appeared to contradict it, making it clear pregnant women and those trying to conceive should avoid alcohol. Obstetricians said that Nice had caused a "complete mess".

Dawn Primarolo, the Public Health minister, told her officials that she wants the confusion to end when fresh guidance to pregnant women is brought out next March by Nice to follow the US advice to "just say no".
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