GMA News - Prenatal alcohol exposure
tied to balance, coordination problems
Children who are
diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder are at higher risk of
having impaired gross motor skills, according to a review of past
studies.
Headlines &
Global News - Listening to Words Related to Alcohol Increases
Aggression: Study
Listening to
alcohol related words leads to aggressive behavior in some people
similar to the effect of drinking, a new study shows.
The Guardian
(Australia) - Alcohol study: middle-aged women drink more often
than daughters
Middle-aged
Australian women drink more alcohol than any other age group,
according to a Queensland University of Technology researcher.
The Globe and Mail
(Canada) - Canadians grossly underestimate their alcohol
consumption, study says
It turns out
Canadians lowball the amount of alcohol they drink by up to a
whopping 75 per cent, especially when it comes to wine.
VICE News (Sierra
Leone) - Packet Alcohol Delivers a Serious Hangover in Sierra
Leone
While alcohol
isn’t new to West Africa, its traditional form, omele, a sugar
cane-based, locally-produced spirit has been virtually eliminated by
competition from Indian manufacturers, who use industrial
technologies and mass production to make highly potent alcohol
affordable to nearly all West Africans.
Medical News Today
- Mouse study: father's pre-conception alcohol consumption could
influence son
Strong links have
already been found between how susceptible an individual is to
alcohol use disorders and the drinking habits of their parents, but a
new study examining mice suggests that a father's excessive alcohol
consumption could influence the effects of his son's drinking, even
before their conception.
Al Jazeera America
(Bahrain) - Bahrain parliament moves to ban alcohol
In an effort to
shed Bahrain’s reputation as the "brothel of the Gulf,"
the tiny kingdom’s parliament has backed a proposal to ban the sale
of alcohol on the grounds that it violates Islam and is linked to
prostitution and public debauchery.
Daily Mail (Japan)
- Living advertisement: How Japan's sleeping street drunks have
been turned into human billboards for alcohol awareness campaign
Drunk people
sleeping on the streets of Japan have been turned into human
billboards for a new alcohol awareness campaign.
Walla Walla
Union-Bulletin (USA) - Early data show increase in alcohol
emergencies in Washington
Shoppers are
buying a bit more hard liquor now that they can find it at four times
as many stores and during twice as many hours as it was available
before voters privatized liquor sales in 2011.
Telegraph.co.uk
(UK) - Binge drinkers should pay for hospital beds
Julia Manning,
chief executive of 2020Health think tank, says people who repeatedly
end up in casualty units after binge-drinking should be billed by the
NHS.
Sydney Morning
Herald (Australia) - No shots after midnight: new bans on Sydney
alcohol service
Pubs, clubs and
bars across central Sydney will be hit with a fresh crackdown on
alcohol service from mid-July, including a ban on shots, doubles and
pre-mixed drinks after midnight in a bid to prevent alcohol-fuelled
violence.
New Zealand Herald
(New Zealand) - Alcohol sponsorship: Doctors want to cut flow of
liquor money in Kiwi sport
Medical
Association tells investigating ministerial panel that ending alcohol
sponsorship of sporting icons is vital if NZ is to see a shift in the
culture of drinking, but sports bodies are resisting further
restrictions.
ITV News (UK) -
185 people a day in North East hospitals due to alcohol
Figures put
together for the NHS show that between 2012 and 2013, 67,000 people
were admitted to North East hospitals with alcohol-related conditions
- the equivalent of 185 every day.
Liverpool Echo
(UK) - New booze price laws blasted by top Liverpool medic
Professor Sir Ian
Gilmore, head of Alcohol Health Alliance UK, says the decision to
abandon a 45p per unit minimum pricing policy will harm public
health. He called on the government to introduce a minimum price for
alcohol of 50p per unit.
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