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Fox News Flash top headlines for December 9 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Russian citizens have been warned to curb alcohol intake for two months after receiving the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, per news reports. Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova told TASS, the Russian news agency, that vaccination […]
Alcohol consumption is a common coping response to stress, and historically, it has increased in the United States following catastrophic events, such as terrorist attacks and large-scale natural disasters. Considering COVID-19, experts at McLean Hospital have published a viewpoint article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine that examines potential ways to moderate and reduce […]
Alcohol’s popularity and its central place in socializing in Australia obscures the dangers of excessive drinking and possible liver disease, Flinders University experts warn. In a sobering message for Dry July, the Head of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at Flinders Medical Center Associate Professor Alan Wigg says alcohol misuse remains a major health challenge in […]
If you look at any bottle of hand sanitizer, you’ll probably notice alcohol as a main ingredient (well, hopefully at least). Not to mention the fact that rubbing alcohol is a staple in many first-aid kits. So…does alcohol kill germs and could you use it in place of, say, hand sanitizer or cleaning fluid? And […]
Children of mothers who drank through the first trimester of pregnancy in addition to alcohol and Smoking, had, according to a new study, a 12-fold increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome. Were compared with children whose mothers do not, or only until the end of the first trimester of Pregnancy smoked and drank alcohol. […]
A new study, published in Science Advances, identifies genes associated with high alcohol intake. Alcohol consumption is associated with many diseases, with the risk of these co-morbidities generally increasing with greater exposure. Excessive consumption of alcohol is considered a result of complex interactions between genetic and non-genetic risk factors. A number of family, twin, and […]
Bad news for folks looking to continue indulging this holiday season. A recent Japanese study found that light to moderate drinking increases the risk of cancer. Cancer, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, published the findings. Masayoshi Zaitsu, Ph.D., led the study. It analyzed information from 33 general hospitals throughout Japan from 2005-2016. […]
Government cuts to alcohol taxes have had dramatic consequences for public health, including nearly 2000 more alcohol-related deaths in England since 2012, according to new research from the University of Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). The findings come as Chancellor Sajid Javid considers whether to cut or raise alcohol duty in the […]
Treatment practices in Canada and abroad need to change in order to help more people with alcohol use disorder, according to a CAMH-led article just published in The Lancet. More than 1 million Canadians have alcohol use disorders in any given year, but the vast majority never receives professional help. Despite interventions for alcohol use […]
Proof you DON’T need to give up booze to live longer: Fascinating experiment on a group who admit to drinking most days (but not to excess) finds reducing their alcohol intake had surprisingly little impact on their health TMOS recruited volunteers to find out if giving up alcohol improves health New government-guidelines suggest a person […]