BBC (Wales) - Alcohol link in third
of young people drowning cases
A third of cases
of young people who drowned in Wales involved alcohol, a report has
found. Public Health Wales' child death review programme looked at 26
deaths involving people aged 24 and under between October 2009 and
September 2014.
EurekAlert -
Alcohol exposure during pregnancy affects multiple generations
When a mother
drinks alcohol during pregnancy, even a small dose, she can increase
the chances that the next three generations may develop alcoholism,
according to a new study from Binghamton University.
Newsweek (Russia)
- WILL RUSSIA LIFT THE BAN ON SELLING ALCOHOL NEAR SCHOOLS?
The Russian
Ministry of Trade is working to overturn a ban on selling alcohol
near schools, believing the law had only resulted in financial losses
for state and business, national daily Vedomosti reports.
Duke Chronicle
(USA) - Researchers’ findings about effects of alcohol inform
state task force
Scientists at Duke
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are working with
the state government on an initiative to educate parents and the
public as a whole about the effect of alcohol on adolescent brains.
News-Medical.net -
Fetal alcohol exposure results in permanent fragmentation in
slow-wave sleep
Slow-wave sleep -
the deeper sleep during which the brain turns each day's events into
permanent memories - is fragmented in adulthood in people exposed to
high levels of alcohol in the womb.
TVNZ - What's
it like to raise a child with foetal alcohol syndrome?
Seven Sharp met
and talked with six mums and their kids affected by FAS. It's a topic
most people don't realise the true extent of damage drinking while
pregnant can have on unborn kids.
MedicalXpress -
Research pinpoints devastating impacts of fetal alcohol syndrome
Children with
fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are affected by a range of problems,
including anxiety, depression, aggression, delinquency and diminished
learning capacity a new review of evidence reveals.
CBC.ca (Canada) -
Drinking game deaths far too common, says N.S. Doctor
Nova Scotia's
chief medical officer of health says the recent death of an 18-year
old after a drinking game is a far too common occurrence and
communities need to start taking the problem far more seriously.
LSE - Tobacco,
alcohol and processed food industries – fitting them into the
public health agenda
One thing even
politicians can agree on is that we will all, eventually, die. But
what we die of, and at what age, is changing. Non-communicable
diseases are increasingly accounting for excessive morbidity and
mortality burdens. Here, Katherine Smith and colleagues outline
different approaches to public health, contrasting those who blame
individuals and those who blame corporations for this transition.
Comparing tobacco, alcohol and processed food industries helps
outline an important research agenda.
News Guardian (UK)
- Half of people suffering due to alcohol
More than half of
people in the north east have suffered due to someone else drinking
alcohol in the last 12 months, a new report has revealed.
Times of India
(India) - Govt eyes health cess on tobacco, alcohol
Union health
minister J P Nadda has in a formal communication asked the finance
minister to look at the feasibility of levying a new 'sin tax' or
'health cess' on 'demerit goods' like tobacco and alcohol, suggesting
the proceeds be used by the government exclusively for investment in
public health.
EurekAlert -
Predicted impact of different alcohol taxation and pricing
policies on health inequalities
Alcohol-content-based
taxation or minimum unit pricing (MUP) are both predicted to reduce
health inequalities more than taxation based on product value (ad
valorem taxes) or alcohol tax increases under the current system
(excise duty plus value added tax) in England, according to research
published this week in PLOS Medicine.
Counsel and Heal -
Poor Lifestyle Coupled with Alcohol Drinking Multiplies Harm
According to a new
research, drinkers who live in the poor areas suffer from poor health
as compared to wealthy drinkers because they are likely to have other
harmful behaviors too.
