Topic: Alcohol
Binge drinking in the United States results in 79,000 deaths per year and costs $745 per person, or nearly $2 per drink, according to a government report out Monday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report uses data from 2006, the latest ...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish researchers are recommending that beer and other drinks with more than 3.5 percent alcohol be banned from grocery stores to curb alcohol-related deaths.The joint study by three research institutes said that restricting the availability of higher-alcohol drinks in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Light to moderate social drinking, a glass or two of wine or beer a day, can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to American researchers.After analyzing more than 140 studies dating back to 1977 and involving ...
About one in 10 cancers in men and one in 33 in women in western European countries are caused by current and past alcohol consumption, according to a study released on Friday.For some types of cancer, the rates are significantly higher, it ...
Two medical investigations published on Tuesday have strengthened arguments that modest daily consumption of alcohol is good for the heart and the blood system.People who drink alcohol in moderate amounts -- equivalent to about one drink a day or less -- are ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday.Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, ...
The U.S. government is considering a proposal to redefine the definition of moderate alcohol consumption in its federal Dietary Guidelines. But one of the suggestions by the advisory committee for the 2010 version, due out later this year, is to define moderation ...
The headlines for several newspapers and websites sounded like a dream come true: "People Who Drink Half-Bottle of Wine a Day Are Healthier," "Moderate Wine Drinkers Have Healthier Hearts ... and Minds," and "A Half-Bottle of Wine a Day Keeps the Doctor ...
When it comes to the moderate consumption of alcohol, be it wine, beer or spirits, any type will do in reducing the risk of thyroid cancer, a new set of research finds. By measuring their habits, based against those who did not ...
Patterns of alcohol consumption may be more strongly associated with risk for ischemic events than overall volume of alcohol consumption, according to research published Nov. 23 in BMJ.. Jean-Bernard Ruidavets, M.D., of the Toulouse University School of Medicine in France, and colleagues ...
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