http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Australians are increasingly drinking alcohol to get drunk but just one in five believe they drink too much. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-australians-drunk-alcohol-reforms.html Health Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:40:07 EST news285492401 A new study made available online today in Addiction shows that, between 2002 and 2009, the percentage of deaths caused by alcohol in British Columbia, Canada dropped more than expected when minimum alcohol price was increased, while alcohol-related deaths increased when more private alcohol stores were opened. The paper has significant implications for international alcohol policy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-alcohol-related-deaths-minimum-alcohol-price.html Addiction Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:00:01 EST news279388370 Efforts to reduce underage exposure to alcohol advertising by implementing time restrictions have not worked, according to new research from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy. The report, published in the Journal of Public Affairs, confirms what Dutch researchers had already learned in that country: time restrictions on alcohol advertising actually increase teen exposure, because companies move the advertising to late night. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-restrictions-tv-advertisements-ineffective-youth.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:42:07 EST news274628516 A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 143 people in eastern India, an official told AFP on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-toxic-liquor-east-india.html Health Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:50:01 EST news243148761 The influence of "Big Alcohol" in the health arena deserves as much scrutiny as Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, especially in light of evidence of bias in funded research, unsupported claims of benefit, and inappropriate promotion and marketing by the alcohol industry, says a new editorial in this week's PLoS Medicine. The PLoS Medicine editors argue that the statistics about problem drinking are troubling enough, but what also demands more attention and research is the influence of the alcohol industry on health research, government policy, and public perceptions of the harms and benefits of alcohol. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-alcohol-industry-scrutiny.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:39:09 EST news226121939