EurActiv - Study: Alcohol
advertising and adolescent drinking are linked
Adolescent
drinking culture is linked to young people’s exposure to various
types of alcohol advertising, a new study has found.
Irish Independent
(Ireland) - Surge in Irish women with liver disease caused by
alcohol
Liver specialist
Professor Frank Murray said young, working Irish women have shown the
biggest increase in liver disease caused by an attitude of
“recklessness” towards alcohol.
Medical Daily -
How Alcohol Affects Your Lungs: Binge Drinking May Lead To
Breathing Problems
Binge drinking may
be the reason it's hard to catch your breath. Alcohol affects nearly
every major organ in the human body, including the brain, heart,
liver, pancreas, and kidneys, but a team of researchers from Loyola
University has found it can also make it harder for the lungs to
breathe.
Scoop.co.nz (New
Zealand) - Things the alcohol industry won’t tell you about
alcohol
New Zealand’s
leading experts in public health and alcohol harm, Professor Jennie
Connor and Professor Doug Sellman, will be in Tauranga to present on
behalf of the Alcohol Action NZ group the evidence that alcohol
directly causes cancer.
New York Times -
Tell Consumers How Many Calories There are in Alcohol
The average
12-ounce beer has 153 calories, slightly more than a can of
Coca-Cola. But the typical beer drinker probably doesn’t know that,
because regulators have long exempted alcohol producers from stamping
their products with the kinds of nutritional labels that are required
on other beverages and on food.
Business Standard
- Sophomores with mental health issues may use alcohol
High school
students or sophomores with mental health issues were more likely to
use alcohol, tobacco and marijuana compared to those without
symptoms, a study has revealed.
The Guardian (UK)
- Minister wants to tackle excessive alcohol consumption at UK
airports
A crackdown on the
sale of alcohol at British airports is being considered by the new
aviation minister amid a spate of incidents involving drunk
passengers.
AllAfrica.com -
Tanzania: If You Are On Medication, Stay Away From Alcohol
One of the most
frequent questions that I am asked concerns the dilemma of mixing
alcohol and medication. Someone might ask if it is okay to have some
beer in the evening after they took a certain type of medication in
the morning.
Huffington Post UK
- How Alcohol Affects Your Brain When You’re Drunk
When you drink
alcohol, the ethanol is absorbed into your blood stream through your
stomach lining or small intestine. Your liver is responsible for
filtering out this ethanol and breaking it down, so your body can
safely get rid of it.
The Hindu (India)
- Incidence of Alcoholic Liver Disease is on the rise
There has been a
great increase in the incidence of Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) in
Coastal Andhra Pradesh, said city based gastroenterologist Nalini
Prasad Ippela. Dr. Prasad who heads the Gastroenterology Department
in the Ramesh Group of Hospitals, says 30 to 40 per cent of the liver
ailment patients in the Coastal Districts were suffering from ALD.
WebMD - Alcohol,
Obesity Could Up Esophageal Cancer Risk
Drinking plus
being overweight may be a bad combo when it comes to risks for the
two most common types of esophageal cancer, a new report warns.
ConsumerAffairs -
Access to drugs and alcohol in adolescence leads to continued
abuse
It’s no secret
that children often form habits that they observe in their parents.
Whether it’s a certain way of talking, how they express their
emotions, or cleanliness habits, you can usually draw some parallels
between generations.
Read more
Medscape - Updated
Guidelines for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Updated clinical
guidelines for diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders,
field-tested in evaluations of 10,000 children in the United States,
South Africa, and Europe, provide more detail on learning and
behavioral deficits and include a new flowchart and a photographic
guide for lip and philtrum morphology.
South African
Broadcasting Corporation (South Africa) - W Cape re-introduces
breathalyser alcohol testing system
The breathalyzer
alcohol testing system for motorists, previously known as the Drager,
is on Monday expected to be re-introduced in the Western Cape.
FRANCE 24 (India)
- Indian women on frontline of battle against alcohol
Alcohol
consumption in India claims a life every 96 minutes. As
alcohol-related violence also continues to rise, women are at the
forefront of a war against alcohol in the country.
Ukraine Today
(Ukraine) - Alcohol, narcotics and negligence kill Ukrainian
soldiers no worse than Russian army
Ukrainian army
lost three soldiers due to non-combat factors in the past 24 hours,
country's military prosecutor Anatoly Matios said in an interview
with 112 channel on July 29, 2016.
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