Neuroscience

What happens to your brain when you drink with friends?

Grab a drink with friends at happy hour and you're likely to feel chatty, friendly and upbeat. But grab a drink alone and you may experience feelings of depression. Researchers think they now know why this happens.

Neuroscience

Exercise or snack? How our brain decides

Should I go and exercise, or would I rather go to the café and enjoy a delectable strawberry milkshake? Until now, what exactly happens in our brain when we make this decision has been a mystery to science, but researchers ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Inactive bird flu virus found in 17% of US dairy foods in study

One in six dairy products in U.S. retail stores contained signs of inactive bird flu virus this summer, regulators said, slightly lower than the numbers seen in a different survey when the pathogen was first found in the ...

Health

Even light drinking harms health of older adults: Study

New research confirms that alcohol is not your friend as you age: Even light drinking was linked to an increase in cancer deaths among older adults, with the raised risk most pronounced in those who had other health problems ...

Oncology & Cancer

Drinking's cancer link is underrated—especially by women

Now that the vast majority of Americans don't smoke, it's hard to know what we're supposed to do about the recent news that 40% of cancer cases are preventable. Drinking alcohol is one of the top risk factors—and yet doctors ...

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