Health
Binge drinking boosts heart risks, especially for women
Imbibing more than a drink per day significantly raises heart risks for all, but binge drinking is especially harmful, particularly for women, new research shows.
Mar 28, 2024
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Addiction
Couples with similar drinking habits may live longer
The couple that drinks together might live longer together, too, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Mar 27, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How neural inhibition could reduce alcohol use
Neuroscientists at Scripps Research have found that inhibiting neurons involved in the body's stress response may reduce alcohol consumption in people who have both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Overweight & Obesity
Scientists uncover new secrets to natural appetite control, offering promise in the battle against obesity
In a study, just published in Nature Metabolism, scientists from Trinity College Dublin and Princeton and Harvard Medical School share newly uncovered secrets to natural appetite control, which offers promise in the battle ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Addiction
Nudging public's thirst for draft alcohol-free beers could significantly reduce alcohol-associated harms, says study
Making alcohol-free beer more widely available on draft in pubs and bars may help people switch from alcoholic to alcohol-free beer, a new study published in Addiction has found. Pubs and bars taking part in the University ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Diabetes
Sugary drinks, fruit juices linked to higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes among boys
A small, long-term study of almost 500 children in Massachusetts has found that regularly drinking sugary drinks and 100% fruit juices during childhood and adolescence may be linked to a higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Pediatrics
Why is toddler milk so popular? Follow the money
Toddler milk is popular and becoming more so. Just over a third of Australian toddlers drink it. Parents spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it globally. Around the world, toddler milk makes up nearly half of total formula ...
Mar 18, 2024
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Medical economics
What's behind the worldwide shortage of cholera vaccines? For starters, they're only made by one company
In February 2024 the World Health Organization announced southern Africa was suffering the deadliest regional outbreak of cholera in at least a decade. At the epicenter of the disaster were Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, ...
Mar 12, 2024
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Addiction
Mother's little helper: Interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcohol
Men have historically, and still do, drink more than women. But in recent years there has been an uptick in women's drinking, particularly among women in their late 30s through to their 60s.
Mar 12, 2024
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Health
Few women know alcohol linked to breast cancer: WHO Europe
Just one in five women in Europe are aware that alcohol is a risk factor for developing breast cancer, a "major" health concern in the region, the World Health Organization warned Friday.
Mar 8, 2024
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