Because high alcohol intake and physical inactivity are known breast cancer risk factors, researchers performed a population-based, prospective cohort study to investigate whether the association between these lifestyle factors and breast cancer may be altered by a woman's additional breast cancer risk factors.
Ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft, which keep drunk drivers off the road, are also likely to increase excessive levels of alcohol consumption according to new research by economists at the University of Louisville and Georgia State University.
Whether you want to loosen up at a work or family function or just really like a friend’s festive punch bowl concoction, it can be easy to consume too much alcohol without realizing it.
Compulsive drinking may be due to dysfunction in a specific brain pathway that normally helps keep drinking in check. The results are reported in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
New research suggests that moderate drinking may lower the risk of being hospitalized for any cause, including cardiovascular conditions. Drinking in moderation may reduce the risk of hospitalization.
Researchers conducted a web-based survey among youths aged 15–25 in the USA (n = 1,212), South Korea (n = 1,192), Finland (n = 1,200) and Spain (n = 1,212) in order to determine the continuing role of daily popular social media use in youth hazardous alcohol consumption in these countries.
A new study suggests that even light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may increase overall cancer risk, compared with not drinking any alcohol at all. The research, which was conducted in Japan, found that current and former drinkers were at an 18% higher overall risk for cancer compared with non-drinkers and that the overall risk was lowest at zero alcohol consumption.
Despite the existence of cost effective interventions to reduce harmful use of alcohol, many countries are not giving it the attention it deserves, say Dag Rekve and colleagues
The first analysis of WHO-recommended policies to reduce chronic diseases finds that implementation is slowly improving, but on average just over half get no further than being endorsed, according to results from 151 countries published in The Lancet Global Health journal.
On November 26, a new study in the academic journal PLOS Medicine dispelled the popular idea that binge drinking is more prevalent among women with children than among women without children, the alleged basis of “mommy drinking culture.”